Be Patient 4
Be patient it is a project that happens wile waiting for something inevitable. It is about the feeling of knowing that something is about to happen and you cannot avoid it. But is also about confronting this idea. I explore this idea through family live and their expectations, the way of living and how they deal with the imminent loss of someone. This also includes me and how the only way that I had to deal with it, is looking through the camera. The project also includes a ‘flower book’, made of pictures of flowers I picked up from the funeral service. After that I dried and flattened them. This part of the project talks about the idea of after life, and how death is only a transformation. For me the dried flowers are the greatest example of this concept, their death only transformed them into something more lasting, just like the memory of a person, that is left on us.
Be Patient 8
Be patient it is a project that happens wile waiting for something inevitable. It is about the feeling of knowing that something is about to happen and you cannot avoid it. But is also about confronting this idea. I explore this idea through family live and their expectations, the way of living and how they deal with the imminent loss of someone. This also includes me and how the only way that I had to deal with it, is looking through the camera.
Be Patient 10
Be patient it is a project that happens wile waiting for something inevitable. It is about the feeling of knowing that something is about to happen and you cannot avoid it. But is also about confronting this idea. I explore this idea through family live and their expectations, the way of living and how they deal with the imminent loss of someone. This also includes me and how the only way that I had to deal with it, is looking through the camera.
Be Patient 12
Be patient it is a project that happens wile waiting for something inevitable. It is about the feeling of knowing that something is about to happen and you cannot avoid it. But is also about confronting this idea. I explore this idea through family live and their expectations, the way of living and how they deal with the imminent loss of someone. This also includes me and how the only way that I had to deal with it, is looking through the camera.
Be Patient 13
Be patient it is a project that happens wile waiting for something inevitable. It is about the feeling of knowing that something is about to happen and you cannot avoid it. But is also about confronting this idea. I explore this idea through family live and their expectations, the way of living and how they deal with the imminent loss of someone. This also includes me and how the only way that I had to deal with it, is looking through the camera.
Be Patient 16
Be patient it is a project that happens wile waiting for something inevitable. It is about the feeling of knowing that something is about to happen and you cannot avoid it. But is also about confronting this idea. I explore this idea through family live and their expectations, the way of living and how they deal with the imminent loss of someone. This also includes me and how the only way that I had to deal with it, is looking through the camera.
Bucolics -1
Bucolics by Sebastian Abugattas. 2012 The Work of Sebastian Abugattas tests Baudrillard’s assertion that the world is a wonderful visual documentary with unbearable subtitles. Just that Abugattas provides the commentary in a strange way, as if in the long landscapes that he photographs, appeared a sign that says YES TREAD. The candour and the lonely beauty of the natural world are not enough. The first commentaries are material and they are marks that the humans have decided to inscribe in the landscape: the remains (semi-) abandoned walls, fences, tanks and enclosures. The later comments are roads, tracks; traces of a blatant absent transit. Abugattas seems to suggest a precarious abandonment, more transitory: all of this is too beautiful not to be swept by the fundamentalism: either from the real estate phenomenon, aesthetical or ideological. Indeed, there are countless ways of trampling these places. The work of Abugattas surrenders under all these possible fates. /Mario Montalbetti
Bucolics -3
Bucolics by Sebastian Abugattas. 2012 The Work of Sebastian Abugattas tests Baudrillard’s assertion that the world is a wonderful visual documentary with unbearable subtitles. Just that Abugattas provides the commentary in a strange way, as if in the long landscapes that he photographs, appeared a sign that says YES TREAD. The candour and the lonely beauty of the natural world are not enough. The first commentaries are material and they are marks that the humans have decided to inscribe in the landscape: the remains (semi-) abandoned walls, fences, tanks and enclosures. The later comments are roads, tracks; traces of a blatant absent transit. Abugattas seems to suggest a precarious abandonment, more transitory: all of this is too beautiful not to be swept by the fundamentalism: either from the real estate phenomenon, aesthetical or ideological. Indeed, there are countless ways of trampling these places. The work of Abugattas surrenders under all these possible fates. /Mario Montalbetti
Corner of Colmena and Camana
Occupied Space. I have always been interested in Lima as a city, in how nothing is what it seems, particularly in how everything remains behind a façade. And this is what I explored in my series Occupied Space; photographs of modern buildings constructed between 1945 and the late 1960’s, that relate to the city in distinctive ways. Some of these relations generate a strong tension but some others interact in a more delicate way. This type of architecture is directly related to the beliefs of architects such as Gropius, Mies Van Der Rohe and Le Corbusier. They created a revolution in the conception and understanding of space and in how the “modern men” should inhabit it. My project revisits those buildings in a very methodical way and points them out, like the marks one can do in a map, and in doing so, revisits the “modern” ideas that where imported to Peru, as well as their relation with the city today.
Corner of Delgado and Washington
Occupied Space. I have always been interested in Lima as a city, in how nothing is what it seems, particularly in how everything remains behind a façade. And this is what I explored in my series Occupied Space; photographs of modern buildings constructed between 1945 and the late 1960’s, that relate to the city in distinctive ways. Some of these relations generate a strong tension but some others interact in a more delicate way. This type of architecture is directly related to the beliefs of architects such as Gropius, Mies Van Der Rohe and Le Corbusier. They created a revolution in the conception and understanding of space and in how the “modern men” should inhabit it. My project revisits those buildings in a very methodical way and points them out, like the marks one can do in a map, and in doing so, revisits the “modern” ideas that where imported to Peru, as well as their relation with the city today.