July 2005,
B/W photographs
Gustavo Graf
Gustavo Graf’s photographic exhibition, nothing.

Fourteen black and white prints that take the acquaintance out of context and use negative space to acquaint us with emptiness. Graf quotes the poem “Tobacconist” by Fernando Pessoa, writing as Alvaro de Campos as a fundamental influence on this series.


I’m nothing.

I will never be anything.

I cannot want to be anything.

Apart from that, I have inside me all the dreams of the world.
Windows of my room,
from my room of one of the millions in the world
that nobody knows who he is
(and if they knew who he is, what would they know?),
you give the mystery of a street constantly crossed by people,
to a street inaccessible to all thoughts,
real, impossibly real,
true, unknown true,
with the mystery of things below the stones and beings,
with death putting moisture on the walls and white hair on men.
With Fate driving the chariot of everything down the road of nothing.