"The Missing Scrip" - Rita Castel Branco | ART ROOM
- Paul S. Tracey
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“The Missing Script” is a a solo exhibition by Lisbon- and Paris-based artist Rita Castel-Branco, presented at Art Room.
Bringing together a constellation of photographic works, The Missing Script unfolds as fragments of a film that was never completed — or perhaps never even begun - yet persists through its own potential. Castel-Branco draws on the traditions of American cinema, from Lynchian surrealism found within the mundane to echoes of Sofia Coppola and William Eggleston. Her images operate in contrast: the raw and the polished, the nostalgic and the hypermodern.
Dissolving the divide between reality and fiction, the divine and the everyday, she transforms familiar surroundings into ambiguous scenes. Whether shot on constructed sets or in spontaneous environments, her photographs feel at once intimate and estranged.
Characters drift through the exhibition — appearing, disappearing, reappearing in shifting atmospheres. Whether they belong to the same narrative remains intentionally unresolved. The question is not whether there is a plot, but whether we still require one, or if the act of imagining it becomes part of the work itself.
The Missing Script becomes a space of activation, inviting visitors to project, connect, and speculate.
About the artist:
Rita Castel-Branco (b.1994) is a Lisbon- and Paris-based photographer and director whose work spans fashion, fiction, documentary, and commercial projects. Rooted in a background in cinema, her practice is defined by bold, cinematic imagery shaped by filmic influence. She studied filmmaking at the New York Film Academy in 2018 and has collaborated with clients such as Vogue, Fucking Young, Netflix, Google, Canon, Havana Club, and Retrosuperfuture. Her work has appeared in group exhibitions including Splash at Switch Gallery (2018), Suspenso (2019), Artsis Collective — Chroma Flora (2023), Amigos do Transpraia (2025), and IMAGEnation during Paris Photo 2025, alongside a wide-ranging editorial and commercial practice.
When and Where:
Opening: Wednesday, December 4 at 18h00
Exhibition: December 4–7
Art Room — Pátio do Tejolo, 1, Lisbon
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“The Missing Script” is a a solo exhibition by Lisbon- and Paris-based artist Rita Castel-Branco, presented at Art Room.
Bringing together a constellation of photographic works, The Missing Script unfolds as fragments of a film that was never completed — or perhaps never even begun - yet persists through its own potential. Castel-Branco draws on the traditions of American cinema, from Lynchian surrealism found within the mundane to echoes of Sofia Coppola and William Eggleston. Her images operate in contrast: the raw and the polished, the nostalgic and the hypermodern.
Dissolving the divide between reality and fiction, the divine and the everyday, she transforms familiar surroundings into ambiguous scenes. Whether shot on constructed sets or in spontaneous environments, her photographs feel at once intimate and estranged.
Characters drift through the exhibition — appearing, disappearing, reappearing in shifting atmospheres. Whether they belong to the same narrative remains intentionally unresolved. The question is not whether there is a plot, but whether we still require one, or if the act of imagining it becomes part of the work itself.
The Missing Script becomes a space of activation, inviting visitors to project, connect, and speculate.
About the artist:
Rita Castel-Branco (b.1994) is a Lisbon- and Paris-based photographer and director whose work spans fashion, fiction, documentary, and commercial projects. Rooted in a background in cinema, her practice is defined by bold, cinematic imagery shaped by filmic influence. She studied filmmaking at the New York Film Academy in 2018 and has collaborated with clients such as Vogue, Fucking Young, Netflix, Google, Canon, Havana Club, and Retrosuperfuture. Her work has appeared in group exhibitions including Splash at Switch Gallery (2018), Suspenso (2019), Artsis Collective — Chroma Flora (2023), Amigos do Transpraia (2025), and IMAGEnation during Paris Photo 2025, alongside a wide-ranging editorial and commercial practice.
When and Where:
Opening: Wednesday, December 4 at 18h00
Exhibition: December 4–7
Art Room — Pátio do Tejolo, 1, Lisbon
