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About EL REVERSO DEL PAISAJE

EL REVERSO DEL PAISAJE is a proposal of artistic appropriation of the American territory. Through images of different spaces, put in dialogue in a series of chemical photographs and photochemical artist’s books, it articulates visual relationships to propose an idea of landscape as a mobile and relational construct, irreducible to a meaning. The exhibition experiments, indicates, surrounds, observes, explores, infers, on elements found in a landscape-experience. In order to construct new imaginaries, it crosses the social, cultural and visual aspects of the territory, with the light, the reference and the matter of the photographic image, and its displacement to the artist’s book.

The material production of these works has been made in bichromate gum, a 19th century photochemical technique that incorporates color pigments in its photosensitive solution. It is a production system that allows a material manipulation of the image in its tone, thickness, density and saturation.

EL REVERSO DEL PAISAJE puts in dialogue two series of works: SILENCIO: 50 photochemical images of 25 x 35 cm, and LIBROS DESIERTOS: 5 photochemical artist’s books, 28 x 32 cm, open. In addition, the reproduction of the biographical mini-documentary made by the Chilean audiovisual collective Rectángulo en el Ojo is also contemplated.