Sao Paulo
“My father’s black, of a forgotten African origin. My mother’s white, from a far-off Portuguese family. Me, I’m like them, I’m Brazilian!” Nelida
Abstracts
"In São Paulo, I produced my first portrait of the beautiful mixed-blood Nelida, who, all by herself, could stand as the manifesto of my Brazilian work… When Stefan Zweig fled Nazi Germany, he was entranced by the 'pure mix' that characterised the population in his place of refuge, Brazil. It was therefore to this 'multiracial' colonial population that I first turned. Stefan Zweig’s enthusiastic vision of an all-inclusive society didn’t leap out at me though…
On the first day, I arrived in São Paulo and went to a comfortable hotel in the city’s most prestigious district, at the top of the country’s social pyramid: topped by a minuscule prism that owns the entire edifice (the whole pyramid, not just the comfortable hotel), but that in no way mixes around, except for its contact with domestic staff.
A white prism, a minority whose ethnic purity matches that of the Indians at the very bottom. It’s a reminder to us that this country dreamt up by Jesuits, was actually built by white leaders, through the work of black indigenous slaves.”
Extract from Zoé Zoé, Femmes du mondes, 2007, Éditions Gallimard
Works
![Brazil 2115](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_evania.jpg?itok=yGG3tamS)
State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Silver print
40 x 50 cm
![Brazil 2139](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_barbara.jpg?itok=nOR3P_i-)
State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm
![Brazil 2975](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_de-sieclement.jpg?itok=nU_CJrDh)
State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sepia turned silver print
30 x 40 cm
![Brazil 2977](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_maria_de_lourdes.jpg?itok=Jzm355Mj)
State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sepia turned silver print
30 x 40 cm
![Brazil 2979](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_maria_de_lourdes2.jpg?itok=5ev_eWEM)
State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm
![Brazil 2125](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_nelida.jpg?itok=N8lZoWZN)
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Gouache on paper
42 x 33 cm
![Brazil 2991](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_nelida2.jpg?itok=OlCczWpI)
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Gouache on paper
29 x 24 cm
![Brazil 2993](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_nelida3.jpg?itok=HDD_ognM)
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Gouache and pencil on paper
42 x 66 cm
![Brazil 2989](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_nelida_coracoes.jpg?itok=eWSXc0C5)
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Silver print
75 x 105 cm
![Brazil 2985](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_helicos.jpg?itok=hhv3G99b)
Brazil
Gouache enhanced silver print
60 x 150 cm
![Brazil 2987](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_pur_melange.jpg?itok=LpFz2-dv)
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Silver print
60 x 74 cm
![Brazil 2995](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_niece_et_tante.jpg?itok=ft8qC_C4)
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm
![Brazil 2997](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/oeuvre/tit_2017_oeuvre_pur_melange2.jpg?itok=5nivc1Mo)
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Silver print
47 x 63 cm
Maps
![Brazil 2112](https://artiste.titouanlamazou.com/sites/default/files/styles/element-block/public/uploads/cartes/tit_2017_carte_bresil_sao_paulo.jpg?itok=l4UQb3VI)
Gouache on paper
80 x 120 cm
Making-of
Images by Eduardo Aguier