MOURAZ, Tito (Portogallo, 1977)Fluvial

Firma autografa dell'Autore (Signed by the Author)

"The flow of rivers, the flow of life, the washing away of worry and care: that's what you'll find in Tito Mouraz's beautiful photobook Fluvial, a story of the rivers across northern and central inland Portugal." (Colin Pantall). The photographs for the book were shot in Portugal, between 2011 and 2018.

These are places with which Mouraz has a lifelong relationship and through the images he transmutes personal geography into a fictional atmosphere. And just as the river currents have shaped the natural elements, the passage of time has shaped his gaze. Irony is replaced by a kindness and gentleness towards his equals, and a fascination with form and analogy.
These are the informal moments of family life, of Portuguese society, relaxed, and at leisure. Bodies, tree trunks and river-bed rocks begin to resemble sculptures; human bodies, almost amphibious, are often reduced to the simplest of forms, shaped by light or submerged under a surface of water, with the river bed becoming almost an optical instrument.
Realistic yet dreamlike, Mouraz conveys a pagan sense of nature, creating the atmospheric effect of an infinite Sunday, a summer dream – and a visual ode to human leisure