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Developed withi the support of Rio de Janeiro City Hall, the Invisible Visible project proposes an experience of the landscape based on reciprocity the act of seeing what looks at us. The title refers to a part of the landscape that is not in the viewing, that is outside it, that is invisible. It is something complementary to the act of seeing.

The work consists in the grouping of various pairs of simultaneous landscape photos, from viewpoints that could get mutually included in the framing - the central point of each image is the origin of the image beside. The two juxtaposed photos, side by side, present a sort of ‘parenthesis’ (a space in-between) towards a certain direction of the visual space. When presented together, these pairs of photos suggest a new apprehension of the landscape in its entirety, through these displacements and complementary views.



“The desire to surprise “the visible and the invisible of each image” is to resist the removal implied in the Renaissance act of seeing, inaugurated by the mathematization of the space of the central perspective. Not that we have to challenge it for the sake of challenging. But, since modernity, when knowledge was turned back on itself, the view from within became a necessity. We entered the crisis of the two dimensions and started to claim a three-dimensional space, which afforded us a more comfortable relationship with the current reality of the world: to no longer highlight the possible removal from depth, which engages frontality, but rather to seek experience of and in depth itself.” (Marcio Doctors)