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when rain falls
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as it blurs, a wash of rain also takes away a certain degree of clarity while retaining a degree of distorting translucence
underground encounters
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descending into the depths of the metro is like crossing the threshold between inner and outer human experience, “... in any case, there was only one tunnel, dark and solitary: mine. “... en todo caso, había un solo túnel...
consumptions
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is an on-going project that approaches civic space as a suggestive canvass of consumption where reality and fiction cross both visually and ideologically
cuba waiting
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waiting in cuba is what people do, it is a cultural demeanor, a state of mind
cuba, una sola idea / a single will
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what are we and what will we be but a unique history, a unique idea, a unique will for all time
the tunnel of deceit: the barracks
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the tunnel was built, the train didn't come
the tunnel of deceit: the station that never was
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horses and lettered walls
unlimited growth inc: writings on the wall, spaces within, spaces whatever
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Beyond documenting a suggestive urban setting that displays contrasting civic structures and expressly comments on our global consumer culture, the images explore qualities of subjacent spaces-within...
they are fragments of a larger whole, and they are graphic instances of the allusive potentialities of light, darkness, color, disconnection and emptiness characteristic of any-space-whatevers.
riot night in canada: vancouver, june 2011
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In as much as some of the store windows displayed mannequins -mostly of female figures-, and commercialized images of alluring femininity, the resulting violence also portrays an implicit aggression, intended or not, towards the human (female) body.
The initial photographs have been partially re-imagined and are presented cropped, refragmented, fractured, to establish a complementary relation between elements of form and content.
A fragmented/fractured style to portray, and correspond to, a moment of fractured civility.
"soy una raya en el mar fantasma en la ciudad": am a ghost in the city, a line in the water, a ray in the sea
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"pa una ciudad del norte / yo me fui a trabajar / mi vida la dejé / entre ceuta y gibraltar / soy una raya en el mar / fantasma en la ciudad / mi vida va prohibida / dice la autoridad..." (Manu Chao, Clandestino)
to a city in the north / I went looking for work / I left my life / between Africa and Europe / I'm a line, a dash, a ray / in the sea / a ghost in the city / my life is forbidden / according to the law…
scenes unseen
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to come
enrique manchon photographs...
