Oedipus Eyes is a photographic series created between 2012 and 2017 and takes as its starting point a fundamental element of Gustavo Prado’s poetic thinking: the reading of everyday life through metaphors and symbolic content. Here, we see a photographic practice less focused on technical aspects (such as light and composition) and more interested in positioning itself as a tool to collect and archive occurrences from the world. For some time, the artist collected images of cars with damaged headlights, randomly found on the streets during his movement through the city. These images appear almost like portraits, giving an anthropomorphic reading to an industrial object. A poetic metaphor reinforced by the title. One of the most famous characters in Greek mythology, Oedipus blinds himself in response to the unfolding of his fate, marked by the encounter with the other. Gustavo Prado’s cars were damaged in accidents, also due to encounters with others. In this sense, Oedipus Eyes points to the traumatic dimension of encounters with others and the social dynamic of renegotiating identities. The series is structured by fragmenting a regular grid, in which different photographs are mixed, juxtaposed, and recombined, creating new images. In the exhibition space, these works are presented with an installation logic, engaging with the architecture by being positioned close to the floor or in the corners of walls.