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Constructing his photographs through gestures and the environment, Ricardo Maio harmoniously integrates elements such as the body and the landscape, lights and mud, stones and skin. Figure and background intertwine and blend, forming images that gift us a sense of estrangement and beauty, discovery and visual pleasure. A photographic essay that began in 2018 and will continue to bring to light the power of these images. Of these mimetic images.