CONCEPT | “Favela in Smudging” is an authorial photograph by Lucas Belchior that observes an ancient gesture within a contemporary setting. On the terrace, above the flow of the city and everyday anxiety, a figure raises the incense burner and spreads smoke over the territory. The simple gesture crosses centuries of Afro-Brazilian spiritual memory: to cleanse, protect and open paths. In the landscape below, the favela stretches like a living organism. Houses, hills and streets form a territory where life happens collectively. From the rooftops, the people of Rio find a rare place of pause. It is there that one breathes after the day, takes a hose shower, a rooftop shower, and watches the sun disappear between the mountains where the city finally slows down. The photograph transforms this moment into a ritual. The terrace ceases to be only architecture and becomes a space of creation, care and observation of the world — the exact potential moment in which the Brazilian feels at the top of the pyramid.
DETAILS | Authorial photograph by Lucas Belchior, created from a documentary and poetic gaze over the everyday and ancestral life of Brazilian favelas. This artwork has a single edition and will not be reproduced again. Each print preserves the original moment captured by the artist.
The artwork is part of the collection “Raiz Alento”, the first edition that inaugurates the Cariño Ateliê project.
SPECIFICATIONS | Original photograph by Lucas Belchior. Fine Art print on professional photographic paper, with matte finish that preserves tonal depth, contrast and richness of image details. Horizontal A4 format (29.7 × 21 cm)
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