Laryssa Machada

Through the photographic vernacular, Laryssa Machada constructs universes that blur the lines between fictional and documentary language, creating atmospheres in which her subjects shift between performance, posed photography, and everyday moments. In her transits through the Pindoramic territory and its waters - Baía de Todos os Santos, Baía de São Marcos, Baía de Guanabara and Rio Negro - the artist weaves a network of affections with the people portrayed, as in the photos in the series Before you loved me, she was already loving me, starring mainly lesbian couples.
For the installation presented at the 14th Mercosul Biennial, Machada showcases a collection of 24 photographs that combine different capture techniques and exhibition supports—such as analog photography and vinyl adhesive prints—creating a path where narrative systems imagine a future in which love and dissidence flow like the untamed waters of a waterfall. The artist embraces a strategy of visual and social emancipation through the intersections of body and territory.

Tiago Sant’Ana