‘Concrete Dreams’ shoots the Brazilian duo as they realize a lifelong dream to skateboard in locations where it had never been deemed previously possible.
– They take skateboarding where it’s never been before: jumping across buildings at Belo Horizonte’s administrative city or racing down ramps akin to a colorful waterslide at the Contemporary Art Museum.
– The skating duo studied over architectural drawings beforehand to ascertain what might be achievable on buildings that lend themselves so well to their sporting passions and livelihoods.
– Barros and Peres were given permission by the Oscar Niemeyer Foundation, the result of which is a series of visually stunning shots on some buildings created before the sport even existed.
– Explaining that decision, Carlos Ricardo Niemeyer, executive superintendent of the foundation, explained: “The proposal from the beginning seemed to us an incredible idea. There is a strong identity between the universe of this sport and Niemeyer’s architecture and its values. Irreverence, freedom, the search for challenges, creativity in movement, all of this is in the essence of skateboarding as well as in Niemeyer’s work, made of free, beautiful, and surprising curves.”
