Exhibition titled Parallel Realities: Rio De Janeiro

Parallel Realities: Rio de Janeiro explores the contrast between how the city is often perceived versus how it is truly experienced. While Rio is widely associated with beautiful beaches, a vibrant culture, and leisure, the exhibition introduces other, less visible realities that exist alongside these familiar images.

Bringing together photography, filmed interviews, text, and material works, the exhibition is structured around contrasting narratives. Work focusing on communities such as Vila Aliança engages with harsher conditions and violence that shape everyday life, while photographs from Complexo da J.K. turn toward quieter moments of daily routine, intimacy, and community. Rather than offering a single story, the exhibition presents multiple perspectives that exist side by side.

Interviews conducted in Rio de Janeiro and London add personal voices and reflections, inviting viewers to pause, listen, and consider how places are experienced differently depending on who is speaking and where they stand.

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Host or Publisher Thaisa Lemos