REVIEW - Fábio Miguel Roque - Awake
Fábio’s photos always seem deep in a dream. Inky dark scenes of nighttime adventures are sparsely dotted with ghostly figures you’d only meet after midnight. Eerie flashes of light allow a glance into an obscured world. Skittish dogs and broken signs are protagonists in his gorgeously textured black and white photographs.
His lens artfully captures non-places. There are always beautiful environments, urban and natural, but they are never specific: strangely and vaguely relatable. The viewer is able to interject their own story and relationship to the empty scenes.
His “Redemption” series uses repeated patterns and geometric designs throughout, giving a musical and mathematical quality to them. Many of the works are minimal, offering only a hint of architecture or bold shape in the dark: a glimpse into the ordered world of man.
“The Cubans” is one of his few series to utilize vibrant color. And he does so wonderfully, as much as I enjoy his unsaturated works these too should not be disregarded. They capture the warmth of the Caribbean.
Keep following Fábio Miguel Roque on his personal site and here on SharksEatMeat.
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