Exhibition - Parallel Realities: Rio De Janeiro by Thaisa Lemos

Thaisa Lemos is a London-based designer and Graphic Design student at Kingston School of Art. Her culturally influenced practice explores themes of family, belonging, and home, drawing on her Brazilian heritage and lived experience. Working across photography, moving image, text, installation, and publication, her work is grounded in personal and cultural research and continues to develop through experimentation.

Parallel Realities: Rio de Janeiro explores the contrast between how the city is often perceived versus how it is truly experienced. While Rio is widely associated with beautiful beaches, a vibrant culture, and leisure, the exhibition introduces other, less visible realities that exist alongside these familiar images.

Bringing together photography, filmed interviews, text, and material works, the exhibition is structured around contrasting narratives. Work focusing on communities such as Vila Aliança engages with harsher conditions and violence that shape everyday life, while photographs from Complexo da J.K. turn toward quieter moments of daily routine, intimacy, and community. Rather than offering a single story, the exhibition presents multiple perspectives that exist side by side.

Interviews conducted in Rio de Janeiro and London add personal voices and reflections, inviting viewers to pause, listen, and consider how places are experienced differently depending on who is speaking and where they stand.

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@thaiisa.lemos, @designsbythaisa

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Photobookcafe, 4 Leonard Circus, London, United Kingdom

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