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    • when rain falls >
      • as it blurs, a wash of rain also takes away a certain degree of clarity while retaining a degree of distorting translucence
    • underground encounters >
      • 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 >
      • 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 >
      • waiting in cuba is what people do, it is a cultural demeanor, a state of mind
    • cuba, una sola idea / a single will >
      • 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 >
      • the tunnel was built, the train didn't come
    • the tunnel of deceit: the station that never was >
      • horses and lettered walls
    • unlimited growth inc: writings on the wall, spaces within, spaces whatever >
      • 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 >
      • 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 >
      • "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 >
      • to come
enrique manchon photographs...
“Consumptions” is an  on-going project that approaches civic space as a suggestive canvass of
consumption where reality and fiction cross both visually and  ideologically.  The advertising
imagery that surrounds us is designed to entice our consumptive habits, habits  that, of course, are continuously informed by advertising itself.  Hence, a consumptive circle.  
 
As I scrutinize the composite external layers that make up our urban ambit: people, buildings and
other utilities, such as signs and billboards, I wonder about what it all  suggests or connotes.  What kind of  meaning or meanings do all these composites create. How is meaning produced, circulated and consumed.  Are consumptions active or passive, informed or uninformedd, conspicuous, inconspicuous or reciprocal.

The cacophony of commercial imagery that grows in our civic forests is usually a fiction that contrasts with the reality of contemporary urban life.  The images often pollute our space visually and invade us ideologically as they create a subjacent social structure of expectations.
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