3+1 Arte Contemporânea is pleased to announce Selva oscura, the latest solo exhibition by Tito Mouraz (1977, Oporto) at the gallery.

Tito Mouraz’s work explores specific geographies through photography by focusing on landscape and how human presence alters it. These territories can be delimited by physical borders or, as in recent series, by emotional borders. The artist’s gaze falls frequently upon unusual places or moments, bringing the viewer’s attention to peculiarities that would easily be overlooked.

In Selva Oscura, Mouraz continues to explore an unrestricted geographical space in an exercise that takes him back to the principles of photography. A return to the basics that responds to a moment of uncertainty and questioning of his own artistic practice. Confining himself to black and white photography, an admittedly pragmatic choice, the artist focuses on the games that light and shadow play upon the landscape, in what can be seen as an approach to drawing.

Starting from a restless gaze, this series of works focus on the insignificances, incidents and small coincidences of the day to day. These brief visions of Mouraz’s daily life function as a window to his state of mind and to the undefinition and disengagement that have influenced his work as of late. All these inquiries culminate and find their answer in the shape of a line, sometimes straight, other times wavy, continuous or interrupted. The artist is not at a crossroads; he is in the middle of the pathway.