The artist:
Rafael Pires

About Artist

Rafael Raposo Pires, b. 1994, Portuguese. My body of work consists mainly on photographs produced while practicing dérives made on diverse urban areas. I started my projects supported by the interest on how transformative architecture can be, observing improvised elements that further made me aware of the distancing between planning and how different people use a constructed space. This later evolved into my appreciation for the movement of a body on a certain space, creating video-performances. Nowadays my work aims to question what do we consider as limits to an urban space, through photography, video and other materials.