PICS x Local, in collaboration with the Plataforma de Imágenes Contemporáneas, makes a selection of portfolios of emerging photographers in Mexico. We believe that those presented in this series are indispensable for the current and future scene in the country.
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Aldebarán Solares is a Mexican visual artist who lives and works in the city. His work reflects on the relationship between the interstices of memory, and the photographic process as a container of memories. His work investigates the ways in which images are currently assimilated and consumed, as well as the way in which our desires are mediated by them.
He studied a Master's degree in Visual Arts at the Faculty of Arts and Design of the UNAM. He completed a residency at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. His work has been exhibited in group shows such as: 4º Jornadas de Reapropiación, III Bienal de Cancún and Reclaim Photography Festival 2017. He has published in Zone Zero Labs and La Astilla en el Ojo (LAAAO Colombia). His solo exhibition El enigma es el vidrio, was presented at Página en Blando gallery in Mexico City in 2017. He was recently selected to be part of the Seminario de Producción Fotográfica 2018, Centro de la Imagen and received an honorable mention at the Prix de la Photographie Paris.
Su serie Umbral discurre alrededor de las fotografías que han moldeado su memoria. Al respecto escribe “No siempre se puede confiar en ellas, pero tampoco en la memoria misma. Vamos tras los recuerdos, buscando comprender o reafirmarlos, pero como la neurología lo ha probado, modificamos esos recuerdos solo con mencionarlos. Todo parece ser un problema de edición. Las fotografías corresponden a diferentes momentos y espacios, lo único que poseen en común estas imágenes es el vacío; unidas por el vórtice, por una frontera”. El proyecto explora aspectos sobre la construcción de la imagen y la memoria a partir del vacío; del error deliberado y la decadencia de la imagen.
The negatives were intervened; partially destroyed by a direct incision to the film, the image had been violated. It was necessary for the light beam to pass through the film, through the vortex and straight to the surface.
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