honorable mention
Daniel Mansur brazilPhoto © Daniel Mansur
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Epecuén
Located in Argentina, in the province of Buenos Aires, Epecuén is an unusual city. Known for spending more than two decades submerged in water, it has been reborn over the years, like a tree that resists. But what we see are not the long-awaited shoots of a new season, but dry ruins of a city whose past remains embalmed in memory.
Nature, which has always been the central theme of the photographer's research, is now shown in an unprecedented way, the sui generis landscapes of the emerging city have given it a new insight. The artist avoided the opulence of the vegetation, thematic much present in his previous works, launching us to the construction of a new look by the nature proposed here, a kind of drought of his esthetics, that now reveals us dry and uninhabited images, proving that nature also pulsates strongly in aridity.
From dawn to dusk, Daniel broke the details of Epecuen. Uncovering the great hiatus that formed in that place, he engaged in the outbreak of the nature that surprisingly lives there. We perceive as great protagonists of this exhibition the dry and whitish trees - the result of long years of submersion in the salt - and Lake Epecuén, which the artist cautiously evokes to show us what had once been life and then death, a paradox that interests him much to investigate , as well as the fragility of life before the forces not only of nature but also of anthropic interventions. Thus, in complicity with nature, the artist incites a necessary socio-environmental questioning, a critical look at ecological imbalances and a request for awareness.
What we see here are vivid photographs in their solitude, lake nuances and dry trees, in an inhospitable setting marked by the action of time, what remains of a life that does not throb more like before. But gradually it recovers itself in the horizons, in the silence of the ruins, in the melody of the winds, in the song of the birds, in the flowing, revealing that when there is any possibility of life, there is much hope. As when the winter ends, and we see the first shoots of the expected spring.
Focused on photography, art, advertising, architecture and publishing.
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entry description
Remnants of memory, Daniel Mansur's solo exhibition, reveals records generated during a blunt immersion of the photographer through the intriguing scenarios of Epecuén.Located in Argentina, in the province of Buenos Aires, Epecuén is an unusual city. Known for spending more than two decades submerged in water, it has been reborn over the years, like a tree that resists. But what we see are not the long-awaited shoots of a new season, but dry ruins of a city whose past remains embalmed in memory.
Nature, which has always been the central theme of the photographer's research, is now shown in an unprecedented way, the sui generis landscapes of the emerging city have given it a new insight. The artist avoided the opulence of the vegetation, thematic much present in his previous works, launching us to the construction of a new look by the nature proposed here, a kind of drought of his esthetics, that now reveals us dry and uninhabited images, proving that nature also pulsates strongly in aridity.
From dawn to dusk, Daniel broke the details of Epecuen. Uncovering the great hiatus that formed in that place, he engaged in the outbreak of the nature that surprisingly lives there. We perceive as great protagonists of this exhibition the dry and whitish trees - the result of long years of submersion in the salt - and Lake Epecuén, which the artist cautiously evokes to show us what had once been life and then death, a paradox that interests him much to investigate , as well as the fragility of life before the forces not only of nature but also of anthropic interventions. Thus, in complicity with nature, the artist incites a necessary socio-environmental questioning, a critical look at ecological imbalances and a request for awareness.
What we see here are vivid photographs in their solitude, lake nuances and dry trees, in an inhospitable setting marked by the action of time, what remains of a life that does not throb more like before. But gradually it recovers itself in the horizons, in the silence of the ruins, in the melody of the winds, in the song of the birds, in the flowing, revealing that when there is any possibility of life, there is much hope. As when the winter ends, and we see the first shoots of the expected spring.
about the photographer
Photographer, graduated in Advertising from Universidade Puc Minas in 1987.Focused on photography, art, advertising, architecture and publishing.
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