honorable mention
Karla Guerrero mexico
title
1939
"Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing... Our imagination and our dreams are forever invading our memories; and since we are all apt to believe in the reality of our fantasies, we end up transforming our lies into truths." Luis Buñuel: My last sigh, 1985, p. 3
In 1939 was the year in which my grandmother born, she now has 79 and dementia. Since three years ago she gradually started to lose her memory and dismiss the meaning of everything. With this project, I aim to explore the relationship between memory and image, in which the visual language is distorted, repeated and regresses without the initial authenticity.
Statistics reveal that more than 44 million people around the world are affected by Alzheimer and dementia diseases. In Mexico, it is estimated that 800,000 people have a disorder.
In her work, she makes a deep reflection of the poetic image along with phenomenological states through the relation between spaces, objects, and nature with the human being.
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entry description
1939"Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing... Our imagination and our dreams are forever invading our memories; and since we are all apt to believe in the reality of our fantasies, we end up transforming our lies into truths." Luis Buñuel: My last sigh, 1985, p. 3
In 1939 was the year in which my grandmother born, she now has 79 and dementia. Since three years ago she gradually started to lose her memory and dismiss the meaning of everything. With this project, I aim to explore the relationship between memory and image, in which the visual language is distorted, repeated and regresses without the initial authenticity.
Statistics reveal that more than 44 million people around the world are affected by Alzheimer and dementia diseases. In Mexico, it is estimated that 800,000 people have a disorder.
about the photographer
Karla G. Guerrero (Mexico City, 1993) photographer based in Mexico City. She received her Bachelor of Communication from Universidad de la Comunicación and her diplomas in Photography from Fundación Pedro Meyer and Academia de Artes Visuales. Her work has been presented in Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Greece. In 2017 her collection "Ser Ahí" is part of BFOTO Emergentes Festival, in Barbastro, Spain. Winner of the National Award of Mexico, at the Sony World Photography Awards 2018.In her work, she makes a deep reflection of the poetic image along with phenomenological states through the relation between spaces, objects, and nature with the human being.
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