Arthur Villares

Grid — the archive as images

  1. Two boys in straw hats and dark overalls face a barred window in a vivid blue wall
  2. Sugarloaf Mountain in silhouette against a pale dusk sky, a couple resting at its summit
  3. A woman stands at the Copacabana shoreline, eyes closed and a hand in her wet hair, the city hazy behind her
  4. A man laughs as he carries a friend in a striped Redley shirt on his shoulders, sky and hills behind
  5. A split-level view of a swimmer's face breaking the surface, the Copacabana skyline and Sugarloaf beyond
  6. A young man bodysurfs a breaking wave toward shore, a Redley sandal in his hand
  7. A pair of white Redley flip-flops on Copacabana's black-and-white wave-patterned pavement
  8. A shirtless man walks toward the surf holding wooden frescobol paddles, rocks and a breaking wave ahead
  9. A woman in a straw hat stands on the sand beside two empty red beach chairs, a graffitied cliff behind
  10. A hand lifts a pair of black Redley flip-flops from the warm sand beside bent knees
  11. A man and a woman sit back to back on the sand at golden hour, sandals in hand
  12. The São Paulo skyline in silhouette at orange sunset, framed by dark tree branches
  13. Overhead view of a woman asleep in a white bed at night, orange ASICS running shoes on the parquet floor beside her
  14. A handycam frame of hands opening a shoebox to reveal a green ASICS running shoe
  15. A low-angle handheld frame of a woman on her bed lacing an orange ASICS shoe, a poster on the wall behind her
  16. Motion-blurred running feet in bright orange ASICS shoes crossing a painted crosswalk, a long shadow on the asphalt
  17. Runners in caps and sunglasses move together on a sunlit street, a woman mid-stride in the foreground
  18. A black-and-white security-camera frame — 'CAM 4, REC' — of a delivery person in a cap crouched at an ornate iron gate
  19. A tumbling stack of ASICS shoeboxes on a doorstep beneath the 'Volto Logo!' note, a runner's leg and red shoe entering the frame
  20. A black-and-white, motion-blurred frame of a boxer throwing a punch toward the camera, film-frame edges showing
  21. A frontal portrait of a shirtless, tattooed fighter with a gold chain, staring into the camera against a grey wall
  22. A tattooed fighter stands with his back to the camera before a gym wall of flags, a title belt, and framed boxing portraits
  23. Old family photographs spread across a wooden table, a boy's portrait among them
  24. Sun and blue lens flares scatter through the leaves of a backlit eucalyptus
  25. A low ring-level frame, a fighter's legs framing a tattooed boxer crouched and watching across the ring
  26. A tyre-shop worker holds a dripping motorcycle tyre, a colleague resting among stacked tyres behind him
  27. A low modernist glass-and-concrete house with a curved roof, set among palms and tropical planting
  28. A tattooed fighter sits shirtless against a pale wall, framed through a chain-link fence, meeting the camera's gaze
  29. A pensive profile of the fighter riding in a car, the city sliding past the window
  30. A dark still life — a ceramic vessel with a draped cloth and a mossed stone on low wooden tables, a dark form on crumpled paper alongside
  31. A single red anthurium flower glowing against a black background
  32. Close-up of the cut end of a log, its grain lit warm against black
  33. A pale grey stone balanced on a dark dome against a grainy field
  34. A backlit console of sculptural vases and a glowing lamp, a chili pepper and a figure's silhouette to one side
  35. An abstract close-up of blue-grey folds resembling a rolling sea
  36. A brown vessel of white flowers and a dried branch on a plinth against black
  37. Overhead — a wooden vase with craspedia stems beside a speckled cup of coffee on a carved blue-grey table
  38. Sculptural wooden furniture and objects in raking sunlight, a carved disc lamp and a cocoa pod on a round table
  39. A wider view of the furniture set in raking light, a figure's shadow cast on the wall behind
  40. A man leans against a wooden gate on a sunlit São Paulo street, the avenue receding behind him
  41. A man carves a wooden panel at a cluttered workbench, mallet raised and chisel in hand
  42. A close-up of a wooden beam being cut on a table saw, warm light on the grain
  43. A detail of carved chair backs with inlaid dots, ranked side by side
  44. A man in a dust mask sands a tabletop under a work lamp, sanding discs stacked nearby
  45. Miniature wooden furniture maquettes — chairs, a round table, a daybed — arranged on a tabletop
  46. A portrait of a young man in a white t-shirt, a fluorescent tube glowing behind him in the dark
  47. A lamp glows on a cloth-draped plinth alone in a dark blue studio
  48. Three small glazed ceramic pieces float, spotlit, against a blue-black ground
  49. A man in white sets a piece in place among the finished Gloria furniture collection on a white cyclorama
  50. Low sun rakes across a pink corner house with a shuttered window, a row of old houses down the street
  51. An extreme close-up of the artist's face turned upward, a red head wrap framing her eyes
  52. A close view of soft textile sculptures — bound forms in lace and floral cloth heaped together
  53. The artist stands amid her hanging textile works in the studio, a red head wrap and coloured drums around her
  54. Crocheted textile sculptures hang from the ceiling of a marble chapel, an altar and painting beyond
  55. Overhead, ringed hands gather and pin a mound of pale fabric
  56. A close profile of the artist looking down, purple eyeshadow and a green earring, a red head wrap
  57. Overhead, pedestrians cross the wave-patterned pavement past a line of street stalls, long shadows across the stone
  58. A covered market alley hung with caps and shirts, a man seated on a stool with his back to the camera
  59. A motion-blurred child in a pink dress runs through a golden field trailing a white cloth
  60. A low-angle black-and-white portrait of the cyclist in a white beanie, gazing upward
  61. A close-up of a Brazilian newspaper page headlined 'the most exhausting ride in the world', a route map alongside
  62. An aerial wide of a lone cyclist on a road threading an immense green valley
  63. A desert gas station glows at dusk, an old truck and a lone palm beside it
  64. From behind, the cyclist rides into the dusk toward distant mesas
  65. A tree-lined road, a cyclist small against a speed-limit sign
  66. The silhouettes of a burnt forest ridge against a deep blue dusk
  67. A sunken wooden canoe rests just under still water, warm light flaring at the frame's edge
  68. A flash-lit black and white frame of a gloved hand reaching from a jacket, film edges visible