
MARIA'S GARDEN
photography project
At 90 years of age, the gardener lives immersed in his garden, where life is renewed and blooms every moment, where impermanence is as certain as life itself.The garden exists since the time when his mother lived in the old house on the land, located in central neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. After the death of his wife, nine years ago, the gardener began to devote his time to the garden, nown now as Maria's Garden. It was also at this time that he began writing ballads, poetic compositions inspired by beauty of his garden, and by his longing companion.The passionate building of his Garden of Eden is made by a daily work of meticulous care. Despite the losses and adversities of life, we do not notice any weight of mourning, on the contrary, we see a strong person well settled with life. His immersion in Eden is not escape but evocation (evocation: voluntary rescue made by memory). As the surroundings fades over time, the gardener remains eternal in Maria's Garden, renewing himself with great vitality, like his plants, and poetizing life in his ballads.
















‘Maria’s Garden’ project won the FotoRio 2017 prize for best portfolio and was awarded a solo exhibition in the 2018 edition of the festival (Galeria Oriente, Rio de Janeiro). The project was shown at the Image Festival Amman 2020 in Amman, Jordan, selected as one of the Top 50 of Critical Mass (Photolucida Festival, United States), shown at the PhotoVisa International Festival in Krasnodar, Russia as a selected finalist in 2019, shown at the FestFoto 2019 Festival of Photography in Porto Alegre, Brazil, shown at the Centro de Fotografía de Montevideo, Uruguay in 2019 and shown at the Encuentros Abiertos 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
EXHIBITIONS
FotoRio 2018
Galeria Oriente at FotoRio International Photography Festival of Rio de Janeiro, 2018 edition. Exhibition result of 2017 FotoRio prize.
MARIA'S GARDEN - Airez Gallery
Solo exhibition at Airez Gallery, Curitiba, Brazil in 2018.
Airez Gallery
Solo exhibition at Airez Gallery, Curitiba, Brazil in 2018.