artist’s statement in an interview:

At the occasion of a duo show between me and Edgar Degas, proposed by curator and museum director Adriano Pedrosa for MASP, I was invited to photograph Degas most iconic sculpture: The Little Dancer Of Fourteen Years Old (1881).

As a second layer of the investigation, I sought permission to handle and photograph Degas’ smaller sculptures, as the museum held the complete series of 73 small bronzes. Depicting women in dancing or domestic positions, and horses in various shapes of movement, they interested me for their aspect of “momentum” or “photographic instant”, which is believed to have been intentional of Degas: to capture positions in a photographic-sculptural register, to later incorporate them back into being images in his paintings.

Photographing the bronzes allowed me a deep comprehension of the theatricality of the movement of the bronzes, but most importantly: it brought to my attention the theatricality of the museological object, per si.