Writings - Ros Boisier

PHOTOBOOK REVIEWS

About 'Los huesos del agua', by Luis González Palma

An open, poetic and non-linear retrospective publication that brings together a selection of works by Luis González Palma. Thirty images, some of his most recent production, are articulated in ten minimal spaces, each made up of three images. Thus, three by three, a simple and delicate sequence is formed that maintains natural resonances with haikus and poems

Intuitions and silences of an uncomfortable performance

About 'Frowst', by Joanna Piotrowska

Recreations of private scenes in a fictitious home. The performance, the silence and the stillness of the photographs convey both attachment and discomfort, as if something were hidden from us. Joanna Piotrowska thus places us at the centre of the family tension between power and love

Happiness as fiction and survival

About 'Ostalgia', by Simona Rota

In 'Ostalgia', Simona Rota brings together her childhood memories of socialist Romania and the ruins of an authoritarian ideology. Through metaphors and memories, the author evokes the experience of living in a country influenced by the authoritarian regime of the Soviet Union

The imperceptible happening of landscape

About 'Densidad relativa', by Javier Aravena

‘Densidad relativa’ brings us closer to a temporary, subterranean experience, imperceptible in the happening; visible in the geological consequences. Javier Aravena proposes a poetic record of the rock cycle based on the exploration of three Chilean territories

Interviews

"It is not possible to keep an untouched view of the territory, each observer sees what he already knows"

Through the use of photographs, texts, videos and installations, Jorge Yeregui creates conceptual strategies with which he enters into a complex discursive framework from which he observes and analyses the territory through diverse cultural confluences. In this interview, Yeregui opens up to methodological reflections on his projects in which he investigates the construction of the landscape and the transformation of the territory

Javier Vallhonrat

"The high mountains are a good place to learn to renounce"

In this dialogue with Javier Vallhonrat we immerse ourselves in the complex conceptual, theoretical and formal plots of his projects 'Interacciones' and 'La sombra incisa' and in the existential drifts that orbit his working methodology and his creative thinking