TOMAZ KLOTZEL (Brazil, 1979) has a degree in photography and aims to reflect on how political and social structures influence the subjectivities of individuals, with Amerindian perspectivism and Latin American forms of affection as two of his conceptual postulates. He held solo exhibitions in Festival de Cinema Livre at MIS-RJ and at Kinolounge, in São Paulo. He has participated in video and film exhibits such as Kurye International Video Festival (Turkey), Oslo Screen Festival (Norway), Hovefestival in Arendal (Norway) and International Video and Contemporary Art Festival Waterpieces (Latvia); and in the collective exhibitions Brasiliens Gesichter, Ludwig Museum (Germany), In-Sonora (Spain), among others. In 2013, he began the DepoisDeJunho project with the anthropologist and writer Luiz Eduardo Soares.
Comprising three images, the photographic work OUSADIA, MAJESTADE! (2018) visits sites of land-related crimes in the state of Pará. To the photographs are added records of eyewitness testimonies for police investigations, recorded conversations with relatives and the audio of the trial of a person who ordered a murder. The blended and contrasting records sketch a picture devoid of the victims’ presence but filled with emotional, criminal and legal echoes.
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