Renata Marquez and Wellington Cançado
Belo Horizonte (MG)
Atlas Ambulante
[Walking Atlas], 2011
This book gathers the stories of six craftsmen peddlers who practice their craft in the streets of Belo Horizonte: Antônio (vendor of biju rolled cookies), Osmar (knife sharpener), Robson (vendor of lollipops), Jefferson (vendor of cotton candy) and Agnaldo and Marlene (seat weavers). The graphic strategies used by Marquez and Cançado to portray these people include the cartographies, where they record the spatial logic of each occupation, the reproduction of images they capture every day, an inventory of their working tools and full-size product documentation.
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Affective Urban Archeology, 2011
Always Something Between Us,
2012 to 2014Av. Celso Garcia 2004/2014,
2004 and 2014Floating Letters – Mapping of the Sign Painters, 2014
From the Obliterado [Obliterated] series, 2012
Half-Mile Apartment/House City/
Flow House, 2014I <3 Peddler, 2009 and Sand Strip, 2009
Parking City, 2012 and Parking.ttf, 2012
Pixação: São Paulo Signature, 2004
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photo: André Seiti
photos: André Seiti
Antônio – Biju seller
Marlene and Agnaldo – Seat weavers
Jefferson – Cotton candy seller
Osmar – Knifes sharpener
Robson – Lollipops seller
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about the authors
Renata has a master on geography and teaches art critical analysis at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). She was the curator of Museu de Arte da Pampulha, responsible for organizing the book collection of Projeto Arte Contemporânea. Wellington is architect and professor of design and architecture at UFMG. Together, they organized the books Espaços Colaterais, Atlas Ambulantes and Escavar o Futuro, among others. They are the editors of Piseagrama magazine.