Astral Flowers 

Opening night: Thursday, May 15, 2014, from 5:30pm - #Fremantle Library

FLAVIO ROSA’s third photography exhibition in Australia, this time, the Australian Fremantle-based photographer originally from Brazil invites everyone to appreciate the many “planets” that can be around us and that are often taken for granted in the rushed day-to-day lives of modern times. Rosa randomly picked, froze and photographed wild Western Australian flowers creating a stellar atmosphere around them. The results, some say, are cosmic. “I am very happy to see this work come into fruition.”, Flavio Rosa. 

ASTRAL FLOWERS – THE UNIVERSE AT OUR REACH 

Photography exhibition explores contrasts of colours, actual temperature of real objects and WA's wild flowers beauty to reflect upon life here and "out there in the universe".

Astral Flowers is Flavio Rosa's third photography exhibition. He uses the contrast of hot and cold and explores the variety of natural resources that Perth can offer by inviting the viewers on a visually paradoxical quest. He achieves that by freezing WA wild flowers and photographing them on scorching hot surfaces.

“As a photographer I am ultimately an observer. My challenge was to create a peaceful coexistence between the contrast of the micro and the macro. I basically put myself out there to capture the beauty of these ‘micro universes’, the flowers, with the purpose of transforming them in the representation of the actual universe itself.”, says Flavio Rosa.  

While the ice transforms itself back into its original form revealing the colours of the frozen flowers in the glare of Perth sunshine, Flavio Rosa clicks that melting image, freezing the moment again.  

The combination of this paradoxical process and transformation of the image tricks our eyes to believe we are able to see beyond Perth’s vast sky. The extreme close up allows the dimension and precision to reminds us of satellite photographs.

Is there life in other planets? Maybe. But our “Astral Flowers”, wild and often taken for granted, are right by our feet, at our doorstep. Near a neglected corner where Flavio Rosa finds its colourful flowers and inspiration for his current artistic photography work. “For me putting the ‘wild flowers’under the light of my lenses was to give importance to something that can be more worldly other than mundane.”, says Flavio Rosa

About Flavio Rosa

Flavio Rosa is an Australian Fremantle based photographer originally from Brazil who has been developing his work as a photographer in WA for the past 10 years. His main project exhibited a couple of times already at the Kulcha Arts Centre, Frozen, portrays actual photographs that have been frozen. By working with the bubbles formed just before the water freezes, Rosa, intervenes in the photograph reaching visually enriching results. In his latest exhibition, “Astral Flowers”, Flavio uses similar techniques, this time, freezing the actual object to be photographed. 

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