honorable mention
Aldebarán Solares mexico
title
Umbral
Photographs have shaped my memories. They are not always trustful, but neither it ́s memory itself. We go after a recollection, looking for understanding or reaffirmation, but, as neurology has proved, we change that recollection just by calling it, just by the mention of it.
It sums all up as an editing problem.
“Umbral” is the spanish word for threshold: The entrance; the limit or the beginning of something, that could be a vortex to a black hole, or just decay.
This project explores the materiality of photography and the relationship between memory and image. It was necessary that the beam of light went into the vortex; through the film, and made contact whit the photographic surface.
Investigative Scholarship Recipient in 2015. Universitat de València, Facultad de Bellas Artes. Valencia, Spain.
Student in Seminario de Producción Fotográfica SPF_2018 in Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City.
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entry description
The use of Photography as medium has expanded exponentially in the last years but not necessarily our understanding of it: the way it affects our memory, our desires, our longing.Photographs have shaped my memories. They are not always trustful, but neither it ́s memory itself. We go after a recollection, looking for understanding or reaffirmation, but, as neurology has proved, we change that recollection just by calling it, just by the mention of it.
It sums all up as an editing problem.
“Umbral” is the spanish word for threshold: The entrance; the limit or the beginning of something, that could be a vortex to a black hole, or just decay.
This project explores the materiality of photography and the relationship between memory and image. It was necessary that the beam of light went into the vortex; through the film, and made contact whit the photographic surface.
about the photographer
Photographer and Visual Artist living and working in Mexico City with a Master ́s degree in Visual Arts in Academia de San Carlos, Facultad de Artes y Diseño, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).Investigative Scholarship Recipient in 2015. Universitat de València, Facultad de Bellas Artes. Valencia, Spain.
Student in Seminario de Producción Fotográfica SPF_2018 in Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City.
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