Haroldo Sabóia’s journalism background has allowed him to explore artistic expression through his affinity for writing and photography. Building on his discomfort with technique, he is devoted to experimentation in practice as a language tool to develop his work. Sabóia embraces words as a strategy to reach the viewer, his works incite us to activate it through the senses, moving us in its literal aspect, of memory, body, through the language of specific places where it transits. In an interview, Sabóia mentions that his creative process starts before photography, with text and literature.
“My process, before photography, arises in the text,” he explains. “When I found out a little about literature, it was kind of like: man, this is a beautiful thing, I want to do something similar. I keep thinking how this aspect of words is so present in my work. When people ask me: ‘Are you an artist? What do you do?’ I identify with William Popper, who calls himself an artist and makes things. I identify a lot with how he puts it, because my work, before it’s a formulated work, in the world it is questions. So I really see my work as research.”