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fototazo has asked a group of 50 curators, gallery owners, blog writers,
photographers, academics and others actively engaged with Latin
American photography to pick two early career photographers whose work
deserves recognition.
This project aims to highlight great work
being made in the region today and also to provide a starting point in
both English and Spanish for exploring contemporary Latin American
photography. LatAm f100 is a collaboration between fototazo and the
photographer and educator
Jaime Permuth.
Today we continue the series with selections by
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill. Her biography follows her selections.
The series also includes responses from
Molly Roberts,
Mariela Sancari,
Alonso Castillo,
Paccarik Orue,
Katrin Eismann,
Dina Mitrani,
Don Gregorio Anton,
Cristina De Middel and
Arturo Soto.
fototazo ha invitado a un grupo de 50 curadores, galeristas,
escritores, fotógrafos, y académicos - entre otros individuos seriamente
comprometidos con la fotografía latinoamericana - a escoger cada quién
dos fotógrafos emergentes cuya obra sea merecedora de mayor
reconocimiento.
Este proyecto es una manera de celebrar
el gran trabajo que se lleva a cabo en la región. Asimismo, busca
proporcionar un punto de partida bilingüe en inglés y en español a las
audiencias que deseen explorar la fotografía contemporánea en
latinoamérica. LatAm f100 es una colaboración entre fototazo y el
fotógrafo y educador Jaime Permuth.
Hoy continuamos la serie con selecciones aportadas por Cecilia Fajardo-Hill. Encontrará su biografía al final del texto.
La serie también incluye contribuciones de Molly Roberts, Mariela Sancari, Alonso Castillo, Paccarik Orue, Katrin Eismann, Dina Mitrani, Don Gregorio Anton, Cristina De Middel y Arturo Soto.
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In the untitled photographs of his series "Dominio" (2014),
Edi Hirose (Peru, 1975) presents images of a landscape from the Zona de Madre de Dios del Amazonas (Mother of God in the Amazon zone). If we don't know that these landscapes are from the Amazon and that its desolation is a product of mining, we may perceive them as contemplative landscapes. It is after a second look that we recognize that the lack of vegetation is due to its extermination. Claudia Benavides writes about the project: “Through the representation of a devastated Amazon territory, where the absence of man and his voice prevails, we are questioned about our imaginary Amazon, about the quest for our own East: an East that becomes the newest and last 'other' within the still colonial imaginary sense of the nation." Nothing is further from the old dream of gold and from the exotic and leafy jungle than the reality of the destruction of one of the world's richest and most important ecosystems.
Edi Hirose (Perú, 1975) en las fotografías Sin título, de su serie Dominio (2014) presenta imágenes de un paisaje de la Zona de Madre de Dios del Amazonas. Si no sabemos que estos paisajes son del Amazonas y que su desolación es producto de la minería, podemos percibirlos como paisajes contemplativos. Es luego de una segunda mirada que reconocemos que la falta de vegetación se debe a su exterminio. Claudia Benavides escribe sobre el proyecto Dominio: ‘A través de la representación de un territorio amazónico devastado, en donde predomina la ausencia del hombre y de su voz, se nos cuestiona sobre nuestro imaginario Amazónico, sobre la búsqueda de nuestro propio Oriente: un Oriente que deviene en el nuevo y último otro dentro del imaginario nacional aún colonial’. Nada hay más alejado del antiguo sueño del dorado y de la selva exótica y frondosa que la realidad de la destrucción de uno de los ecosistemas más ricos e importantes del mundo.
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| From the series "Dominio" © Edi Hirose |
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| From the series "Dominio" © Edi Hirose |
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| From the series "Dominio" © Edi Hirose |
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| From the series "Dominio" © Edi Hirose |
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| From the series "Dominio" © Edi Hirose |
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| From the series "Dominio" © Edi Hirose |
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| From the series "Dominio" © Edi Hirose |
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| From the series "Dominio" © Edi Hirose |
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| From the series "Dominio" © Edi Hirose |
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| From the series "Dominio" © Edi Hirose |
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About five years
Ana Teresa Barboza (Peru, 1981) began to work with embroidery as a more experimental form of drawing and representation which allows her to reflect the slower rhythms of nature fundamentally invisible to the eye as can be seen in her embroidered drawings that visualize the daily growth of plants. The artist comments that: "The thread in these pieces intends to show what exists behind those events (the slow transformation of nature), demonstrating the constant transformation, marking and recording of the different changes." In her "Hanging Landscapes" (
Paisajes colgantes) (2012-16) the photograph is contrasted with the embroidery as a way not only of imagining and completing the landscape beyond the geometric format of photography, by overflowing in an organic way, but also by showing nature in the landscape from a more contemplative and subjective act of observation and embroidery.
Ana Teresa Barboza (Perú, 1981) desde hace unos 5 años comienza a trabajar con el bordado como una forma más experimental de dibujo y representación que le permite reflejar los ritmos más lentos y fundamentalmente invisibles al ojo de la naturaleza, tal y como se aprecia en sus dibujos bordados que visualizan el crecimiento diario de plantas. La artista comenta: ‘el hilo en estas piezas se propone mostrar lo que existe detrás de esos eventos, (la transformación lenta de la naturaleza) demostrando la transformación constante, marcando y registrando los diferentes cambios.’ En sus Paisajes colgantes (2012-16) se contrasta la fotografía al bordado, como forma no solo de imaginar y completar el paisaje mas allá del formato geométrico de la fotografía, al desbordarla de forma orgánica, sino para mostrar la naturaleza en el paisaje a partir de un acto más contemplativo y subjetivo de la observación y el bordado.
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Cecilia Fajardo-Hill is a British/Venezuelan art historian and curator
in modern and contemporary art, specialized in Latin American art based
in Southern California. She holds a PhD in Art History from the
University of Essex, England, and an MA in 20th Century Art History from
the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England. Presently she is guest
curator at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, co-curating
Radical Women:
Latin American Art, 1960-1985, a survey of radical artistic practices by
women artists in Latin America and Latina artists, to open in 2017
under the umbrella of the Getty initiative PST LA/LA. Fajardo-Hill is
currently the chief curator for the Space Collection and its initiative
Abstraction in Action, a multi platform project on post-90s abstraction
in Latin America.
