2019

Avaria

Humberto Brito

Public Space

Avaria [Damaged Goods] builds on an analogy between the deterioration of public spaces and the way we become who we are. Becoming who we are is as determined by the choices we make and by our firmness of purpose, or lack thereof, as it is by context, accidents, neglect, oportunity, by the violence caused by others, by stupidity. Maybe life is just this heartless, authorless process, through which, as if by invisible hand, cities and persons become gradually damaged. As I was making these images, I started to see that — the anonimity of the damage — in every place, in each thing, in everyone, in my own life.