This monograph is comprised of 36 photographs taken along the route of the Transnordestina, a railroad under construction in the Northeast of Brazil that ties the desert to the sea. Traveling throughout Ceará, Piauí, and Pernambuco, Barbasch explored a country in a persistent state of flux. Obras revolves around the notion of suspension, both literal and metaphorical. The photographs are not about documenting from a stable viewpoint so much as about referencing a shifting subjectivity. They grapple with the slippery question of what it means to belong in a place and whether we can actually ever know anything simply by looking.

Screen-printed softcover / Risograph / 37 pages, perfect binding / 8x9 inches / Edition of 100 with 5 APs / Special Edition of 20 with a signed silver gelatin print / Bilingual (ENG-POR) / Publisher: Penumbra Foundation / 2022 / ISBN: 978-1-7342923-8-1

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