Marcelo Prais
Marcelo Prais (São Paulo, 1972) is a Brazilian photographer, researcher, and visual artist whose research investigates memory as a living, material, relational process. His practice explores how memory inhabits bodies, objects, images, places, and relationships—and how it changes between them. Working through photography, Prais brings photographs, archives, objects, landscapes, bodies, gestures, and materials, moving between personal memory and collective memory, documentary traces and imagined narratives. Rather than evidence of the past, these elements become agents that trigger, carry, transform, and produce memory. In recent years, his research has developed around Memory, Finitude, Body, and Alterity, investigating time, permanence, transformation, presence, absence, identity, ancestry, and human connection. For Prais, photography is a space of encounter between visible and invisible, presence and absence, remembering and imagining—where memory can persist, transform, and return.
Rubber has shaped the Amazon’s history, economy and relationship with the world. Extracted as latex and transformed…
Mirror Ball…
Colored popcorn on sale at an amusement park. Kernels coated in pink, blue and green sugar syrup are piled inside a…
Memory Lane is built from archival material: found photographs, family albums and documents, layered with newly…
The Círio de Nazaré is a Catholic religious festival held every October in Belém, in the Brazilian Amazon, honoring Our…
The Guamá River is not a backdrop to Belém; it is its pulse. Its tides set the rhythm of the day, feed the markets,…
"Suspended Time explores time as a space of uncertainty, memory, and transformation. Rather than following a linear…
- SYMBIOSIS - …
CHILDRED DONT LIE…
FLY AWAY …
"Role Model" strings five found wedding portraits hung against dense green foliage as laundry left out to dry. Brides…
- SAUDADE - …
Body and soil…
"Ordinary Urban Collapse" is a photographic essay on São Paulo, conceived entirely as diptychs whose paired images set…
AGING part 1 …
- Roots and Bodies -…
Wishfull…
The yellow book.…
Between Worlds…
FALLEN SKY…
The lines etched into this 80-year-old manual worker’s palm are more than traces of labor; they are a record of time,…
Beneath the beauty, discipline and apparent body perfection, invisible fractures emerge. The shattered surface becomes…