
Brazilian artist Fernando Ekman’s work deals heavily with themes surrounding memory. Working as a scenographer for a television network in Brazil, Ekman spends his days contemplating the forestages of theaters where actors perform with passion and recite from memory beautiful pieces of art as well as reenactments of life.
As such, it is these scenes that he chooses to depict in his work—although in his paintings the stages are devoid of any actors or musicians, standing as only empty memories of the art that was brought to life upon them.