Yuri Tuma

Manmade creations are calculated and rational, losing their sense of mystery to a sense of logic. Nature and its sensation of beauty, on the contrary, holds mystical and mysterious qualities that humans are far from understanding, much less recreating. I do, however, believe that architecture can achieve perplexing feelings comparable to those of nature through creations not easily understood by the mind. It is in the sense of curiosity and wonder that these two opposites can find a common ground. By deconstructing individual buildings through photography and providing a clear, limitless backdrop, we can separate architecture from its surroundings to better understand its geometric identity. When exploring cities in this fashion one learns about a community's culture from the ground up. Through the application of symmetrical edits I strive to provide the viewer with a moment of comfort.

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Yuri Tuma

Yuri Tuma was born in 1983 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and lives and works in Miami. He has had five solo exhibitions and has participated in group shows and art fairs in New York, Shanghai and São Paulo. Tuma's main practice is photography, but has also collaborated in video, sculpture, fashion, installation art and painting. Yuri was awarded the “Heineken Light Your Night Challenge" prize during Art Basel Miami in 2013 and earlier this year was selected as part of TransVisiones : Alcobendas, a 3 month residency program in Spain that will culminate with a collective exhibition during PhotoEspaña . His work has appeared in international publications such as "Mercedes Benz ! Avant Garde Diaries" and Elephant Magazine. Some of his clients have included South Florida Ford and Samsung Mobile USA. His photography has been recognized by Instagram and other social networks which has provided him with a strong online following of over 34K. Tuma transforms his photographs into formulaic patterns creating optical art pieces unusual to the field of photography. Previously inspired by the subconscious and symmetry as a tool for understanding compulsive behavior, Tuma now jointly draws inspiration from the power of digital mobile art and how it affects social behavioral cognition and social change.