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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.