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Review byStefania Biamonti

The viewer’s eye bounces around the frame of the images, now all so large as to offer up Porto Alegre’s expansive skyline in its entirety and so close as to have building windows appear as though they were some sorts of otherworldly textiles.
In this series dedicated to the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Santioli gets experimental with the view: at one moment his gaze seems to come in for the approach then, without apparent warning, it takes off again. It climbs then drops off. And vice versa.
He manages to capture such a broad array of views and details of the urban landscape that he is then able to playfully isolate, remix and reinsert to them within their ‘proper’ context or sometimes have them stand out by creating silhouettes against patches of blue sky, often embellished by wisps of cloud.
Each image is meticulously put together, with the photographer employing a studied geometric approach to his every composition, though always different one from the other – a by-product of ongoing, spontaneous synthesis.
At times the volumes seem to risk being overwhelmed by the sheer potency of color present in them.

In some images, the sky itself appears to run over onto the facades and become plastered there.
In another set of images, by contrast, views of vivid, panoramic swathes of the Brazilian metropolis give the viewer the unlikely impression of being in a city constructed entirely out of Lego bricks.