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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...
underground encounters:


gallery and text below:




descend,      flow,      merge,      glance,     dread,    yearn,      yearn rouge


“Underground  encounters” is an open visual file,  a work in progress that extends over several  years and started in 1973, in Paris.  The selection presented  here comprises a few summary sentences,   a few verses,   of that longer narrative.  The photographs have all been taken in the  Paris subway,  le metro,  an awe-inspiring underground structure of tunnels, stairs, escalators, and mechanized walks, that epitomize mass transit
technology.  Its tubular subterranean nature resembles a giant sewer system  where the flowing waste is, in fact, us, depersonalized humans in purgatorial transit.  Metaphorically, descending into the depths of the metro is like
crossing the threshold between  inner and outer human experience.  These are fragments of that  crossing.

“... en todo caso, había un solo túnel,  oscuro y solitario: el mío.”

“... in any case, there was only one tunnel, dark  and solitary: mine.” (E. Sabato, The Tunnel)


all images copyright © enrique manchon 2013

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