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Tangerine, 2022
von • by Gleici Rufatto
www.gleicirufatto.com
A positive view of the world is always helpful – and especially
now, as winter draws to a close, it might not hurt to immerse it
entirely in ice cream colours! That’s what Brazilian photographer
Gleici Rufatto does, capturing the urban environment of her
chosen home, Los Angeles, with playful ease. Instead of depicting
the cool, grey architecture of a megacity, the young artist creates
a harmonious and fantastic cityscape that evokes a desire for
spring and joie de vivre. Of course, even under the Californian
sun, not all things look rosy all the time – Rufatto post-processes
her images with a colour filter. Through pastel tones and
reduced shapes, the photographer creates simple geometric
portraits of a sunny metropolis with block-like compositions
and a blue sky in the background. The deliberate fragmentary
representation of architecture diminishes the depth of the image
space, turning it into a pure two-dimensional composition.
This blurs the boundaries between reality and a pink-coloured
dream world that exudes tranquillity, peace and equilibrium.
In front of these images, viewers can meditate: here, seem to
hear the faint chirping of a cricket, there, a child laughing in
the distance, and a bird twittering. The images, which operate
between intuition and mathematical logic, invite viewers to look
intently and contemplate: How do we find peace and aesthetics
in our everyday surroundings? For her joyful and simultaneously
minimalist work, Gleici Rufatto has already received several
photography awards, including in the “Abstract” category in the
field of professional architectural photography at the renowned
IPA International Photo Awards 2023, as well as the Minimalist
Photography Awards 2022.