Breno Rotatori works with photography and video, having developed in his artistic practice a deep relationship with silence, pauses and the cycles of the earth, in an attempt to understand different ways of relating to each other and to nature. In constant investigation through the universe of audiovisual languages, Rotatori has intertwined his work with life experiences he went through ― such as the six years he lived in a community in the state of Minas Gerais, from 2014 to 2020.
In those years, outlooking a life close to nature and far from the urban, Rotatori carried on with with photographic records. From that period onwards he set out to express the possibility of embodying the subtle, beyond the image itself, extrapolating the picture’s material dimension. After all, for Rotatori, every form has its own internal counterpart to be glimpsed at through what is unsaid by the the image.
In the last nine years, Rotatori has taken part in several exhibitions, held in venues such as the Amsterdam Fotografiemusiem, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Les Rencontres d’Arles, PHoto España and Centro Cultural São Paulo. He has been featured in publications as Talent Foam Magazine, Talent Issue British Journal Photography and Festa – Sueño de la Razón. His production can be found in the collections of Brazilian institutions such as the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (MAM-SP), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul (MAC-RS) and Itaú Cultural.
Breno Rotatori [1988; São Bernardo do Campo – SP, Brazil]
1. Education 2009
Bachelor in Photography – Senac; São Paulo, Brazil
2. Exhibitions
Group Show GS | Solo Exhibition SE
2022
Cosmopolíticas [Cosmopolitics] – 11o Festival de Fotografia de Tiradentes; Minas Gerais, Brazil GS
Cosmopolíticas [Cosmopolitics] – CâmeraSete, Casa da Fotografia de Minas Gerais; Brazil GS
2020
MAM Photography Collectors Club – 20 Years – Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo; Brazil GS
2014
The Part That Doesn’t Belong to You – Wiesbaden, Germany GS
NEBLINA: A fotografia no acervo do MACRS [FOG: Photography Collection in the Museum of Contemporary Art]; Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil GS
Sobre lugares e gestos [About Places and Gestures] – Lab MIS, Museu da Imagem e do Som; São Paulo, Brazil GS
2013
Todo mundo sabe (que nossas cidades e corpos foram feitos para ser destruídos) [Everybody Knows (That Our Cities and Bodies Are Meant to Be Destroyed)] – Galeria Mônica Filgueiras; São Paulo, Brazil GS
Manélud – Centro Cultural São Paulo; Brazil SE
Itaú Collection of Brazilian Photography – Instituto Tomie Ohtake; São Paulo, Brazil GS
2012
Imaginary Documentary – Contemporary Brazilian Photography – Oi Futuro Flamengo; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil GS Itaú Collection of Brazilian Photography – Centro Cultural Paço Imperial; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil GS
Eloge du Vertige – Maison Européenne de la Photographie; Paris, France GS
2011
Habitar o tempo [Inhabiting Time] – Foam [Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam]; Netherlands SE What's Next? – Les Rencontres d’Arles; France GS
Geração 00 [Generation 00] – Sesc Belenzinho; São Paulo, Brazil GS
Souvenir # Brasilien – Kunst im Kulturflur; Hildesheim, Germany GS
2010
El paisaje, la habitación, la persona [The Landscape, the Room, the Person] – Centro Cultural de España; Nicaragua GS
Incubadora [Incubator] – Galeria Olido; São Paulo, Brazil GS
Kaunas Photo – PT BR + Nights of Photography; Lithuania GS
9th Jataí National Festival of Contemporary Art – MAC Goiás; Brazil GS
FestFotoPoa – International Photography Festival; Porto Alegre, Brazil GS
2009
Beleza transfigurada [Transfigured Beauty] – Micasa; São Paulo, Brazil GS
Photo España, selected for Descubrimientos – Centro Cultural São Paulo; Brazil GS
2008
Identidades – lá e cá III, São Paulo-Lisboa [Identities – Here and There III, São Paulo-Lisbon] – Instituto Camões; Brasília, Brazil GS
3. Publications
2016
La furia de las images: notas sobre la postfotografia [The Fury of Images: Notes on Post-Photography], by Joan Fontcuberta – Galaxia Gutenberg; Spain
2014
Do que é objeto [Of What is Object] – Pingado Prés; São Paulo, Brazil
2012
Sueño de la razón [Dream of Reason] – Fiesta n. 03; South America
2011
Zeit Campos – 'Schuss Gegenschuss'; Hamburg, Germany
British Journal Photography – 'Talent Issue'; London, United Kingdom
Fotografia contemporânea: entre olhares diretos e pensamentos obtusos [Contemporary Photography: Between Direct Gazes and Obtuse Thoughts] – FACOM/FAAP, Ronaldo Entler; São Paulo, Brazil
2010
Foam Magazine – 'Talent'; Amsterdam, Netherlands
4. Awards and Nominations
2021
Winner of the Urbanautica Annual Awards
2014
Nominated for Joop WordPress Nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award
2014
Nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award
2011
Finalist of the Conrado Wessel Award
2009
1st Place in Category Student of Clix/Sixpix Award
Porto Seguro Photography Award – Newcomers Category
5. Collections
Elegia [Elegy] – Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo; Brazil Bloco de notas [Notepad] – Itaú Cultural; São Paulo, Brazil
6. Art Residency
2014 4 Lab MIS, Museu da Imagem e do Som; São Paulo, Brazil