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Drawing from collections at the Nationaal Archief, Mauritshuis, and Rijksmuseum, Roncato reappropriates paintings, maps, and documents originally produced during the Dutch Golden Age to frame Brazil as exotic, fertile, and conquerable. Commissioned under the governance of John Maurice of Nassau-Siegen and authored by figures such as Frans Post and Albert Eckhout, these images are treated as aesthetic instruments of empire. Through collage, juxtaposition, and a combination of analogue and digital photography, Roncato fractures these historical narratives and inserts them into present-day scenes of The Hague and Amsterdam, revealing symbolic sites, overlooked details, and everyday façades where colonial traces continue to surface.
The work connects past propaganda to the present city, questioning how visual power operates through framing, omission, and repetition. Inspired by João Cabral de Melo Neto’s poem Uma faca só lâmina (“A knife all blade”), the project understands each image as a “cut”: a blade without a handle, evoking fixed ideas that wound by insisting on singular, unresolved truths.
The project extends into "The Façade" (2025), a publication created in collaboration with researcher Carolina Monteiro and designer Alex Gyurkovicz. Bringing together archival material, historical paintings, contemporary photography, and critical essays, the book does not function as a conclusion but as a critical assemblage, allowing images and texts to confront one another and expose the mechanisms through which colonial narratives are constructed, maintained, and circulated.
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FUTURES is a European Photography Platform that brings together the global photography community to support and nurture the professional development of emerging artists worldwide.
FUTURES curates exhibitions and programs, including talks, through our extensive network of top European curators and artists.
The FUTURES Residency Program provides selected emerging photographers with the time, space, and resources to develop new work, with a strong focus on the artistic process and research.
FUTURES annual publications feature in-depth articles, interviews and conversations with key players from the global community. Released alongside the annual exhibition, the publication showcases work by FUTURES artists alongside commissioned essays on some of the most compelling issues in contemporary photography.