Tito Mouraz. House of the seven ladies

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1 Tito Mouraz House of the seven ladies CONTACT Voies Off Gallery 26 ter rue Raspail, Arles - France +33(0) marie.dalfalco@voies-off.com ARTISTIC FILE - UPDATED JANUARY 2015

2 The Voies Off Gallery Opened in July 2007, the Voies Off gallery is a natural complement to the Voies Off festival whose raison-d être is the support and promotion of young creative photography. Many artists have been revealed, receiving the Voies Off Prize, widely recognized by the professionals of photography. Some have now acquired an international reputation: Antoine d Agata, Vincent Debanne, Oliver Metzger, Mohamed Bourouissa, Lisa Wiltse... Voies Off Gallery :: Exhibition of Marlous van der Sloot Under Christophe Laloi s direction, the Voies Off gallery schedules emerging or full-fledged artists. The Voies Off gallery is opened year round and located at the heart of the ancient city of Arles. it occupies a 150 m2 dedicated to contemporary photography. Voies Off Gallery also creates and develops close relationships with young artists whom it sponsors such as, currently, Richard Petit, Marlous van der Sloot and Hai Zhang. Last exhibitions Contact Voies Off Gallery 26 ter rue Raspail Arles France +33(0) marie.dalfalco@voies-off.com Boris Eldagsen December 12 - February 21 David Favrod July 7 - Sept. 21 Georges Pacheco April 5 - May 18 Olivier Metzger & Martin Kollar Sept Oct. 31 Yusuf Sevinçli July 1 - Sept. 22 Henk Wildschut March 23 - June 9 Hai Zhang January 13 - March Elina Brotherus July 3 - Sept. 28 Marlous Van der Sloot March 30 - May 15 Guillaume Janot Dec Jan. 14 Bernard Demenge Oct Nov. 27 Michel Le Belhomme July 4 - Sept. 30 Amaury da Cunha March 18 - June 30 Geoffroy Mathieu Dec Feb. 28 Masato Seto July 4 - Sept. 20 Bertrand Stofleth May 20 - June 20 Joël Tettamanti July 7 - Sept. 30 Cécile Menendez Sept Jan. 30 Olivier Metzger July 7-30 A deux pas le silence July 3 - Sept. 30

3 Tito Mouraz Tito Mouraz, 1977, Portugal. Education 2010/ Artist residency in the area of black and white laboratory and photography printing in Superior Art School of Oporto Graduate in Visual Arts and Photography in Superior Art School of Oporto (Escola Superior Artistica do Porto) Curricular internship for 6 months in laboratory of photography in the Fine Arts Faculty of Porto s University (Faculdade de Belas Artes do Porto) Photography course (theory and black and white laboratory) by the Photography Expression Movement Exhibitions «House of the Seven Ladies» FORMAT Photography Festival, Derby, UK «House of the Seven Ladies» Festival Circulation(s), Paris «House of the Seven Ladies» Módulo Gallery, Lisbon «House of the Seven Ladies» Ourense Museum «Rua da Cabine» Places of Note: personal landscapes, Gallery FAB, St. Louis, US «House of the Seven Ladies» Encontros da Imagem 2014, Braga «House of the Seven Ladies» Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Lisbon «Est Art Fair» International Contemporary Art Fair (Módulo), Lisbon «Fotógrafos Contemporâneos O Espírito e o Lugar» Módulo Gallery, Lisbon «Open Space Office» Espaço Mira, Oporto «Rua da Cabine» Fundação Lapa do Lobo «Rua da Cabine» Show Me Art Gallery, Encontros da Imagem, Braga «Open Space Office» Museu da Imagem, Braga «Casa//Arte» Palacio de Cibeles (Módulo), Madrid «Rua da Cabine» Encontros de Agosto, Fortaleza, Brazil «Rua da Cabine» Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon «Open Space Office» Módulo Gallery, Lisbon «Territoires de la Photographie Portugaise» Les Photaumnales, Beauvais, France «Portuguese Photography Night» Fotofestiwal, Lodz, Poland (screening) «Dear Stories» Museu da Imagem, Braga «Just Mad»(Módulo), Madrid «Open Stock» Módulo Gallery, Lisbon «Un-natural Cuts» Pedro Remy Gallery, Braga «Laissez Faire» Independent Art Show, Porto «Portugaalia» Latvian Museam of Photography, Riga «Kolga Tbilisi Photo» Georgia «Fotografia Europea» Reggio Emilia, Italy (projection) «Un-natural Cuts» Geraldes da Silva Gallery, Porto «Leitura(s)» Módulo Gallery, Lisbon «Arte Lisboa» (Módulo), Lisbon «ATLÁNTICA COLECTIVAS» Fotonoviembre, Tenerife «Portugaalia» Noorus Gallery, Tartu, Estonia «Leitura(s)» Encontros da Imagem 2010, Braga «Arte Lisboa» (Módulo), Lisbon «City Museum» Aveiro «May Revelation» Colorfoto Gallery, Porto «May Revelation» Era uma vez no Porto «photographic concepts S. Domingos Gallery, ESAP, Porto «R & R» Armazém do Chá, Porto Selected prizes and awards Selected for the FORMAT International Photography Festival, Derby, UK Selected for the Festival Circulation(s) 2015, Paris Finalist of the Portfolio Review, Duesseldorf Photo Weekend, Germany Winner of Emergentes DST Photography Award, Encontros da Imagem, Portugal Winner of Portfolio Review Award, Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Portugal Finalist of the Emergentes DST Photography Award, Encontros da Imagem, Portugal Honorable mention of Young creative of Aveiro (Category Photography), Portugal Winner of Maio Claro Award, Portugal Collections Banco Espírito Santo, Lisboa Private collections

4 House of the seven ladies Tito Mouraz There s a house in the region of Beira-Alta, in Portugal, that is said to be haunted by the ghosts of seven ladies, seven maiden sisters, one of whom was a witch Deeply influenced by the place he grew up, Tito Mouraz (b. 1977, Portugal) created a photographic series about the legend of this rural and reputedly haunted place. The series is comprised of raw, gloomy black and white portraits of people, animals and their surroundings. Exploring the myth of the place, the images depict night, fumes, the moon, sounds of the trees. Mouraz portrayed people that are attached to the land they live in like trees. The series aims to report a persistent return to the same place that shaped him in his childhood, as to show the changes and aging of the territory. It is still said around here that the house is haunted. At the house lived seven ladies, all maiden sisters. One of them was a witch. On full moon nights, the ladies in their white garments would fly from the balcony to the leafy branches of the chestnut across the street. From there they would seduce men who passed by. In the House of the Seven Ladies, chatting, getting to know what it was like before me, listening and imagining, was as important as the act of photographing. untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, x 92 cm. I started by doing some portraits of people. They interested me because they have always lived here and are attached to land just like trees. They speak about time, about their memories, their losses many of them already dress in black. This series gives an account of a persistent return to the same place, so as to scrutinize its differences (the slow deactivation of agricultural practices, the gradual transformation of the territory, aging ), in spite of listening to the same owl, to the same fox, to the same stories. Same as in legend, perhaps the magic and appalling features, this cyclical experience, were my greatest wound: night, fumes, corpses, moon, ruin, sounds. A place of affections, after all I was also born here. Tito Mouraz

5 untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, x 47 cm.

6 untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, x 126 cm. untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, x 47 cm.

7 untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, x 92 cm. untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, x 92 cm.

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9 untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, x 58 cm. untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, x 47 cm.

10 untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, x 58 cm. untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, x 58 cm.

11 untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, x 126 cm. untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, x 47 cm.

12 untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, x 58 cm. untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, x 47 cm.

13 untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, x 58 cm. untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, x 92 cm.

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17 untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, x 47 cm. untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, x 126 cm.

18 Technical features House of the seven ladies Tito Mouraz Pigment inks prints on Fine Art Museo Silver Rag 310g Laminated on aluminium Dibond Mounted in an oak frame with glass. Original works numbered and signed : untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, x 47 cm x 47 cm, Edition of PA :: x 58 cm, Edition of PA :: x 92 cm, Edition of PA :: x 126 cm, Edition of PA :: (refer to the legends to know the size of each picture)

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