RESERVADO | 2015

Cover of the zine RESERVADO with a drawing based on territorial markings observed in São Paulo.
RESERVADO | 2015 — zine cover
Discarded objects and debris beside a weathered wall with a girl with red heart balloons graffiti in São Paulo.
Coincidental Street Installation | São Paulo, 2015
Zine spread combining São Paulo street graffiti, red interventions and a framed childhood drawing.
RESERVADO | 2015 — pages 2–3
Zine spread combining drawings and São Paulo street imagery, including a brightly painted staircase.
RESERVADO | 2015 — pages 4–5
Black-and-white zine spread combining São Paulo street graffiti, signage, a skeleton holding a doll and other found urban imagery
RESERVADO | 2015 — pages 6–7
Zine spread with a collage of drawings (Thinking Cracks).
RESERVADO | 2015 — pages 12–13
Photomontage of a graffiti-covered wall in São Paulo with two hands holding a sheet reading “NÃO”.
RESERVADO | 2015 — pages 14–15
Graffiti-covered interior with a framed Thinking Crack drawing at the centre.
RESERVADO | 2015 — pages 18–19
Zine page combining the text “O inesperado acontece aqui” with a drawing of two entwined figures.
RESERVADO | 2015 — page 22
Photomontage of a graffiti-covered São Paulo street with a rat beside a discarded mattress.
RESERVADO | 2015 — page 23
Photomontage of São Paulo graffiti with a drawn figure stabbing a wall with a knife, causing it to split open and bleed.
RESERVADO | 2015 — pages 24–25
Photograph of a street dog in front of a graffiti-covered wall in São Paulo, with the word “VOMITOS” added in a speech bubble.
RESERVADO | 2015 — pages 26–27
Zine spread connecting São Paulo graffiti to a supermarket scene through a drawn arm, with red interventions echoed by blood beneath a shopping cart.
RESERVADO | 2015 — pages 28–29
Zine spread combining a black-and-white photomontage with a photographed ritual figure against a graffiti-covered wall in Brazil.
RESERVADO | 2015 — pages 30–31
Drawing about street dogs in São Paulo, later used as a sticker.
RESERVADO | 2015 — page 32
Black-and-white photograph of a person lying on a São Paulo sidewalk in front of a mural with the words “Welcome to Brazil”.
RESERVADO | 2015 — page 34
Cover of the zine RESERVADO with a drawing based on territorial markings observed in São Paulo.
RESERVADO | 2015 — zine cover
Discarded objects and debris beside a weathered wall with a girl with red heart balloons graffiti in São Paulo.
Coincidental Street Installation | São Paulo, 2015
Zine spread combining São Paulo street graffiti, red interventions and a framed childhood drawing.
RESERVADO | 2015 — pages 2–3
Zine spread combining drawings and São Paulo street imagery, including a brightly painted staircase.
RESERVADO | 2015 — pages 4–5
Black-and-white zine spread combining São Paulo street graffiti, signage, a skeleton holding a doll and other found urban imagery
RESERVADO | 2015 — pages 6–7
Zine spread with a collage of drawings (Thinking Cracks).
RESERVADO | 2015 — pages 12–13
Photomontage of a graffiti-covered wall in São Paulo with two hands holding a sheet reading “NÃO”.
RESERVADO | 2015 — pages 14–15
Graffiti-covered interior with a framed Thinking Crack drawing at the centre.
RESERVADO | 2015 — pages 18–19
Zine page combining the text “O inesperado acontece aqui” with a drawing of two entwined figures.
RESERVADO | 2015 — page 22
Photomontage of a graffiti-covered São Paulo street with a rat beside a discarded mattress.
RESERVADO | 2015 — page 23
Photomontage of São Paulo graffiti with a drawn figure stabbing a wall with a knife, causing it to split open and bleed.
RESERVADO | 2015 — pages 24–25
Photograph of a street dog in front of a graffiti-covered wall in São Paulo, with the word “VOMITOS” added in a speech bubble.
RESERVADO | 2015 — pages 26–27
Zine spread connecting São Paulo graffiti to a supermarket scene through a drawn arm, with red interventions echoed by blood beneath a shopping cart.
RESERVADO | 2015 — pages 28–29
Zine spread combining a black-and-white photomontage with a photographed ritual figure against a graffiti-covered wall in Brazil.
RESERVADO | 2015 — pages 30–31
Drawing about street dogs in São Paulo, later used as a sticker.
RESERVADO | 2015 — page 32
Black-and-white photograph of a person lying on a São Paulo sidewalk in front of a mural with the words “Welcome to Brazil”.
RESERVADO | 2015 — page 34

RESERVADO is a zine, made in 2015 while I was living in São Paulo, Brazil.

My attention was drawn to what I came to think of as “Coincidental Street Installations”: temporary constellations of discarded objects, construction waste, broken walls, graffiti, vegetation and traces of everyday life.

The word “reservado” repeatedly appeared on sections of walls in streets and favelas, marking claimed territory. It became the title of the zine.

Through photography, photomontage and drawing, I collected and transformed these observations into RESERVADO. The work reflects on territory, appropriation and social structures, and on the traces they leave in the urban environment.

Published by Gallery Daeppen.
DIN A5, 36 pages, edition of 60.

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