Betina Samaia Installs Mirror Photography Work 'Outro Lado' in São Paulo's Parque Trianon

Key facts

• Outro Lado, a new installation by Betina Samaia curated by Marcello Dantas, opens September 26 at Parque Tenente Siqueira Campos (Parque Trianon) in São Paulo
• The free exhibition occupies one of the last preserved remnants of Mata Atlântica in central São Paulo, on Avenida Paulista
• Photographs and large mirrors suspended among trees create a route where forest, image and visitor share the same visual field
• Mirrors reflect vegetation, light and people, with wind, luminosity, humidity and movement preventing any fixed image or single perspective
• The research began during the pandemic when Samaia, in Paraty on the coast of Rio de Janeiro, carried a mirror to a river edge surrounded by lírios-do-brejo
• Parque Trianon was inaugurated in 1892 and preserves a Mata Atlântica fragment in central São Paulo
• Samaia studied Psychology at PUC-SP and has developed photographic research for about two decades on nature, imagination and the unconscious
• Her work has shown at Museu da Imagem e do Som, Museu Histórico Nacional, Paraty em Foco, SP-Arte, ArtRio and the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris
• In 2026, Amazônia – O Fim do Verde was selected for the World Water Day Photo Contest Travelling Exhibition, inaugurated in Milan
• Outro Lado runs until December 20 with free daily admission from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.; the opening is September 26 at 10 a.m.