Trajectories

In this work called Trajectories, I document one of the subjects that interests me most, the one of care. I photograph the hospital I frequently attend, the greenhouses in the botanical gardens and my close relationship with these two places.

On my way to the hospital I frequently go to, there's a botanical garden. The exuberant Monsteras Deliciosas at the entrance to the garden gave me a strange feeling when I first walked past. In Brazil, the walls of my mother's house are covered with the same plants. But here, in the middle of winter, they fall on fake walls with a tropical decor. A closer look reveals the complex network that supports them: modern greenhouses, humidifiers, irrigation pipes and electric cables.These are artificial structures that sustain life, just like the hospital a few meters away. Places of interdependence, stability and instability, artificiality and vulnerability. Bodies and plants foreign to the places where they live. Living beings trying to establish bonds, through roots in the case of plants, or through emotional bonds in the case of humans. Roots that grow and intertwine, creating a veritable ecosystem. Lives that, though planted on concrete, develop powerful and unexpected alliances. 

In my work, one of the subjects that interests me most is that of care, which is very present in my daily life. I photograph the hospital I frequently attend, the greenhouses in the botanical gardens. These greenhouses, like hospitals, are structures that sustain life. I try to capture a certain paradox: on the one hand, the strangeness and artificiality present in these places, and on the other, emotional bonds forged when we are cared for and vulnerable.