Tragaluz

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Tragaluz

Mi intención fue reevaluar el escenario que veía cada día, reconstruirlo y captar la esencia urbana y las narraciones cotidianas que habitaban allí.

My intention was to reassess scenes I saw every day, deconstruct them, then rebuild them, capturing their urban essence and the daily stories that they told.

Vuelvo a explorar la experiencia entre el todo y el fragmento (zoom in, zoom out) reflejando nuestra manera de ver el mundo: podemos ver el edificio de enfrente como un conjunto, casi invisible por verlo a diario, un mero objeto urbano con un conjunto anónimo de vidas; o ver su esencia como un lugar de la vida humana, las personas reales que allí viven, sus vidas, sus hábitos, sus historias, su entorno, verlos como sujetos individuales.

Quise reflejar la manera de ver el edificio, no en su forma entera sino piso por piso, vida por vida, y así fui reconstruyendo el edificio rectangular y regular en una representación expresionista e irregular: áreas de luz cálida, hogares, vida humana de calor y color dentro de un edificio nocturno negro y oscuro.

Vi la soledad de las personas viviendo allí; su aislamiento a pesar de estar solo a unos metros de otra persona. Vi la yuxtaposición entre lo que era supuestamente una vida comunal y cercana, y la realidad solitaria, distanciada y fragmentada.

Exposición Colectiva 2012, 7/1 – Bogotá, Colombia. Fotografía digital. Composición de 6 obras en diferentes formatos. Cajas de luz LED – Backlight. Series 3

Once again, I explore the relationship between the whole and the fragment (zoom in, zoom out), reflecting upon our way of seeing the world: seeing the building opposite as a whole (almost invisible from having seen it every day), or seeing its essas a place where people live, a structure that people call home: their lives, their habits, their stories, their surroundings; seeing them as individuals.

I wanted to reflect this duality in the way I represented the building: not in its entirety as a structure; but floor by floor, room by room, life by life. Effectively, I rebuilt the rectangular and regular form into an expressionist and irregular image: a boring building replaced by areas of warm light, real homes, real people with their warmth and essence and colour.

I also saw the loneliness of the people living there; their isolation despite being only a few metres away from each other. I saw the juxtaposition between what was supposedly a community of neighbours, and the reality of lonely, fragmented and distanced lives of isolated people.

Collective Exhibition 2012, 7/1 – Bogotá, Colombia. Digital photography. Composition of 6 works in different formats. LED light boxes – Backlight. 3 series

Paisaje Urbano – Catalina Ruiz

Tragaluz

Tragaluz