Gigantica Amazonica #15

Marcelo Moscheta is a practice-based artist whose work explores the interplay between humans and nature, transforming materials and imagery gathered from remote landscapes into drawings, photographs, sculptures, and site-specific installations. His series, Gigantica Amazonica, began with an immersive journey through the Amazon rainforest. In this work, Moscheta digitally overlays enormous foliage onto archival photographs by 19th-century photographer Albert Frisch, creating a fictional interplay between past and present. Each manipulated image is paired with a life-sized drawing of the leaf depicted, blurring the lines between documentation and imagination. Frisch himself remains an enigmatic figure in Brazilian photographic history, with speculation around his existence persisting until the late 20th century. Marcelo Moscheta was awarded The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2017. His work was featured in Vitamin D2, New Perspectives on Drawings by Phaidon (2013). Recent Exhibitions include Errante at Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo (2024); Do labirinto ósseo do Homem ao Eixo do Rochedo at National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC), Lisbon, (2024).