The Iberê Foundation's headquarters is the only work in Brazil by the greatest Portuguese architect, Siza Vieira. Like Siza, the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer also has only one work in Portugal, a hotel on Madeira Island. Approaching this coincidence, I’ve made photo essays on the buildings extracting geometric fractions and formal subtleties from each one. The resulting shapes transfigure perspectives. They find proximity in what is distant. They thus promote an abstract dialogue between these two immense modernists, one of a more silent nature, the other of a more eloquent expression.
