“To photograph is to appropriate the photographed thing. It means entering a particular relation with the world — one that resembles knowledge and, therefore, power.” — Susan Sontag
Alexandre Horta e Silva — Photography
Between the visible and the unsayable, art takes shape as desire.
Photography emerges in this threshold — in what life offers and in what it cannot hold.
My gaze is crossed by listening, by an attention that receives what words cannot reach.
I do not aim to explain the world; I aim only to suggest it.
Alexandre Horta e Silva’s images arise from a sensitive dialogue with the world, where appearances, forms, and movements oscillate between the defined and the indeterminate. His practice seeks pauses — moments of suspension — that allow perception to reveal what surfaces only in the time of attention.
In Presences, bodies and gestures inhabit the frame; in Absences, what withdraws or grows silent acquires its own weight; in Echoes, small reverberations unfold into new possibilities; in Crossings, transitions and passages between states and spaces become visible. In Inhabiting the Image, the relationship between photography and environment expands, exploring modes of presence and the visual dialogue shaped by inhabited space.
His works arise both from the instant and from deeper layers of perception, articulating sensibility, formal clarity, and atmospheres revealed only to those who pause. Each photograph invites an encounter built not merely through looking, but through a contemplative, attentive experience.