Tito Mouraz. House of the seven ladies

Tito Mouraz House of the seven ladies CONTACT Voies Off Gallery 26 ter rue Raspail, 13200 Arles - France +33(0)4 90 96 93 82 marie.dalfalco@voies-off.com www.voies-off.com ARTISTIC FILE - UPDATED JANUARY 2015

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 13200 Arles France +33(0)4 90 96 93 82 marie.dalfalco@voies-off.com www.voies-off.com Boris Eldagsen - 2014 December 12 - February 21 David Favrod - 2014 July 7 - Sept. 21 Georges Pacheco - 2014 April 5 - May 18 Olivier Metzger & Martin Kollar - 2013 Sept. 22 - Oct. 31 Yusuf Sevinçli - 2013 July 1 - Sept. 22 Henk Wildschut - 2013 March 23 - June 9 Hai Zhang - 2013 January 13 - March 3 2013 Elina Brotherus - 2012 July 3 - Sept. 28 Marlous Van der Sloot - 2012 March 30 - May 15 Guillaume Janot - 2011 Dec. 3-2012 Jan. 14 Bernard Demenge - 2011 Oct. 28 - Nov. 27 Michel Le Belhomme - 2011 July 4 - Sept. 30 Amaury da Cunha - 2011 March 18 - June 30 Geoffroy Mathieu - 2010 Dec. 17-2011 Feb. 28 Masato Seto - 2011 July 4 - Sept. 20 Bertrand Stofleth - 2010 May 20 - June 20 Joël Tettamanti - 2009 July 7 - Sept. 30 Cécile Menendez - 2008 Sept. 20-2009 Jan. 30 Olivier Metzger - 2008 July 7-30 A deux pas le silence... - 2007 July 3 - Sept. 30

Tito Mouraz Tito Mouraz, 1977, Portugal. Education 2010/2011 - Artist residency in the area of black and white laboratory and photography printing in Superior Art School of Oporto. 2010 - Graduate in Visual Arts and Photography in Superior Art School of Oporto (Escola Superior Artistica do Porto) 2009 - Curricular internship for 6 months in laboratory of photography in the Fine Arts Faculty of Porto s University (Faculdade de Belas Artes do Porto). 2003 - Photography course (theory and black and white laboratory) by the Photography Expression Movement Exhibitions 2015 - «House of the Seven Ladies» FORMAT Photography Festival, Derby, UK 2015 - «House of the Seven Ladies» Festival Circulation(s), Paris 2015 - «House of the Seven Ladies» Módulo Gallery, Lisbon 2014 - «House of the Seven Ladies» Ourense Museum 2014 - «Rua da Cabine» Places of Note: personal landscapes, Gallery FAB, St. Louis, US 2014 - «House of the Seven Ladies» Encontros da Imagem 2014, Braga 2014 - «House of the Seven Ladies» Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Lisbon 2014 - «Est Art Fair» International Contemporary Art Fair (Módulo), Lisbon 2014 - «Fotógrafos Contemporâneos O Espírito e o Lugar» Módulo Gallery, Lisbon 2014 - «Open Space Office» Espaço Mira, Oporto 2014 - «Rua da Cabine» Fundação Lapa do Lobo 2013 - «Rua da Cabine» Show Me Art Gallery, Encontros da Imagem, Braga 2013 - «Open Space Office» Museu da Imagem, Braga 2013 - «Casa//Arte» Palacio de Cibeles (Módulo), Madrid 2013 - «Rua da Cabine» Encontros de Agosto, Fortaleza, Brazil 2013 - «Rua da Cabine» Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon 2013 - «Open Space Office» Módulo Gallery, Lisbon 2013 - «Territoires de la Photographie Portugaise» Les Photaumnales, Beauvais, France 2013 - «Portuguese Photography Night» Fotofestiwal, Lodz, Poland (screening) 2013 - «Dear Stories» Museu da Imagem, Braga 2013 - «Just Mad»(Módulo), Madrid 2012 - «Open Stock» Módulo Gallery, Lisbon 2012 - «Un-natural Cuts» Pedro Remy Gallery, Braga 2012 - «Laissez Faire» Independent Art Show, Porto 2012 - «Portugaalia» Latvian Museam of Photography, Riga 2012 - «Kolga Tbilisi Photo» Georgia 2012 - «Fotografia Europea» Reggio Emilia, Italy (projection) 2011 - «Un-natural Cuts» Geraldes da Silva Gallery, Porto 2011 - «Leitura(s)» Módulo Gallery, Lisbon 2011 - «Arte Lisboa» (Módulo), Lisbon 2011 - «ATLÁNTICA COLECTIVAS» Fotonoviembre, Tenerife 2011 - «Portugaalia» Noorus Gallery, Tartu, Estonia 2010 - «Leitura(s)» Encontros da Imagem 2010, Braga 2010 - «Arte Lisboa» (Módulo), Lisbon 2010 - «City Museum» Aveiro 2009 - «May Revelation» Colorfoto Gallery, Porto 2009 - «May Revelation» Era uma vez no Porto... 2009 - «photographic concepts S. Domingos Gallery, ESAP, Porto 2009 - «R & R» Armazém do Chá, Porto Selected prizes and awards 2014 - Selected for the FORMAT International Photography Festival, Derby, UK 2014 - Selected for the Festival Circulation(s) 2015, Paris 2014 - Finalist of the Portfolio Review, Duesseldorf Photo Weekend, Germany 2013 - Winner of Emergentes DST Photography Award, Encontros da Imagem, Portugal 2013 - Winner of Portfolio Review Award, Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Portugal 2012 - Finalist of the Emergentes DST Photography Award, Encontros da Imagem, Portugal 2010 - Honorable mention of Young creative of Aveiro (Category Photography), Portugal 2009 - Winner of Maio Claro Award, Portugal Collections Banco Espírito Santo, Lisboa Private collections

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, 2012. 73 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

untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, 2014. 47 x 47 cm.

untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, 2011. 100 x 126 cm. untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, 2012. 47 x 47 cm.

untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies. untitled, from the series House of the seven ladies, 2014. 47 x 47 cm.

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, 2014. 47 x 47 cm. - 47 x 47 cm, Edition of 5 + 1 PA :: 1.400-47 x 58 cm, Edition of 5 + 1 PA :: 1.700-73 x 92 cm, Edition of 5 + 1 PA :: 2.200-100 x 126 cm, Edition of 5 + 1 PA :: 2.700 (refer to the legends to know the size of each picture)