Marcelo Prates

There is a poem by Drummond that describes with melancholy the photographs that time hides and causes to be lost somewhere in memory - until one day, in an instant that the poet glimpses, a stroke of luck and chance overcomes each lost trace and brings back The happy and complete memory returns, a summary of what existed.

Minas Gerais from Belo Horizonte, Marcelo Prates presents a series of mega photographs. These are thought-provoking images, which move the most attentive look, that look that, beyond the surface portrayed, with a throw of the dice can find the outline of the frame and the margin, the here and now that in that exact moment, and not in another, reveals the future of perspective, forever detached from the present and yet summary of what exists – as Drummond proclaims.

Images that are more questions than answers, each in its own way, also because they mix, with the new developments in the photographic medium, the most ephemeral content and its traps, the most fleeting, eternally reconstructed with each new look.