The magic of the image, the fruit of a moment of grace and of the naturalness of the human condition, is what informs the work of Miguel Rio Branco, who looks with his pictures for a continuity between existence and the medium.

In his framing the furies of living are not submitted to a purifying wash: they offer the viewer the outer tissue of existence, caught on the side of its darkness, where all the conflicts of a human and non-human reality come rushing down and every form is reduced to debris.