ALAIN RICHARD & KWAME SOUSA
Kwame Sousa | Alain Richard
Between Worlds is a solo exhibition by Alain Richard bringing together works from multiple photographic series captured across the Azores, Fonte da Telha, Atacama Desert in Chile, and the dense forests of Brazil. Moving between geological vastness and intimate detail, Richard’s photographs transform natural landscapes into spaces of contemplation, abstraction, and perceptual ambiguity.
Defined by exceptional precision and a sculptural sensitivity to light, texture, and scale, these images transcend documentary representation. Water becomes gesture, vegetation dissolves into immersive surfaces, and mineral landscapes unfold as minimalist compositions suspended between reality and abstraction. In the absence of human presence, these photographs invite us into a slower, more contemplative way of seeing.
In a world saturated by instant images, Richard’s photographs resist immediacy. Rather than documenting nature, they preserve fleeting moments of perception, revealing hidden structures, subtle rhythms, and details often imperceptible to the naked eye. Influenced by both contemporary photography and painting, Richard approaches the landscape not as a subject to describe, but as a visual territory through which perception itself can shift. Thus, Between Worlds unfolds as an exploration of stillness, transformation, and reconnection, a space where photography becomes meditation, and landscape becomes a threshold between the visible and the invisible.
TABASKI — Tides of the Invisible is Kwame Sousa’s third solo exhibition at MOVART.
Inspired by the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, commonly known in West Africa as ‘Tabaski’, the exhibition delves into the invisible traces of colonialism along with the processes of constructing contemporary African identity(ies).
The artist draws on symbols of sacrifice, generosity and renewal to weave a visual language that manifests itself through the layering, excavation and fragmentation in each artwork. Here, the paintings function as sensitive archives, composed of multiple layers of paint, memory and obliteration, where the visible coexists with the hidden.
Amidst rhythms, symbols and historical moments, these works offer a visual cartography in a constant process of reinterpretation, interweaving African spirituality, oral tradition and interculturality.
