LATINITUDES is an ongoing photographic project that seeks to expand and intensify the relationship between the Brazilian artist Leonardo Finotti and the modern architecture in Latin America. It is a work that up to date covers thirteen countries, thirteen different realities (1). Modern architecture serves as a pillar, it is a common thread through which Finotti elaborates a personal narrative made of images. LATINITUDES, a neologism, combines the words "Latin" and "latitudes", and proposes a linear installation through photographs in 9 cities, from south to north, by their latitude (2).
In 2015, the Museum of Modern Art in New York exhibited its largest exhibition of Latin American architecture, Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980. Leonardo Finotti was invited by the museum to make a contemporary vision, which in addition of being presented in the exhibition, opens its catalog with a personal portfolio (from which 15 of his photographs entered the museum's permanent collection) .
That work, which spanned seven years and led Finotti to travel throughout Latin America, gave rise to LATINITUDES, unlike the MoMA exhibition, this selection of B&W photographs brings us a more personal and intimate view conceived together with the curator Michelle Jean de Castro.

(1) The 13 countries are AR, UY, CL, PY, BR, BO, PE, CO, VE, PA, MX, DO and CU.
(2) The 9 cities are Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Santiago, São Paulo, Lima, Bogotá, Caracas, Mexico City and Havana.