“Biógrafo consists of 85 works that, despite being numbered in their titles, are not produced in sequence. When describing the origin of this series, Daniel Senise mentions his father, who was an airline pilot and who during the 1950s and 1960s took a vast set of photographs during his travels. With his death, the artist inherited the images, which record people, places and occasions that are unknown to him. In addition to what they describe as portrayed content, these photos can be thought of as a puzzle that never ends and that leaves a trace, piece by piece, about ways of seeing. In this exhibition, which borrows the title of the series in question, Biógrafo, the artist looks back and speculates on the narratives of the life of another, while looking forward and exercising on the possibilities of seeing. ‘Close your eyes and see’, says James Joyce in Ulysses.”
(excerpt from the text “Biógrafo”, by Júlia Rebouças, 2018)
