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Review by Stefania Biamonti

This images are a thoughtful study of the ornate graffiti that encompasses all of Sao Paulo. Graphic symbols, drawing and intermingling swathes of color that clash like warring tribes on the city’s walls tells a tale of ubiquitious Paulista creativity. When extracted from their original context and isolated via the still photo, they could be mistaken for a collection of the author’s unpublished paintings. Even with these images, Santioli rarely leaves hints for viewers to decrypt the visual enigmas he creates. On a rare occasion it could be a recognizable piece of landscape that reveals the subject’s origin, other times a single window or a distinctive row of them, or perhaps a tree-trunk or the blur of a commuter darting into a train’s carriage.