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Due to the great successes the exhibition is prolonged from January 10th 2009 to January 17th 2009
Jordi Colomer: En la Pampa
Can we inhabit the desert? Can we inhabit a space with fiction? This is the exercise that I proposed for the project "En la pampa". I invited a man and a woman that didn't know each other and that were not actors to live certain situations in the Atacama Desert, in the north of Chile.
The desert became a vast stage with multiple sets. Maria and Mateo's main asset was to succeed in forgetting the camera and to improvise the dialogues according to the action, for example, to wash a car near an abandoned cemetery. To be completely honest, I have to say that the main character had once played the role of a tree in a theater show at school. She knew what it was to live in a stage, as a scenographic element on feet. (Jordi Colomer)
This serie of photographs Pozo Almonte was taken in the Atacama desert, in northern Chile. At the end of the nineteenth century, saltpetre deposits led to development of the industry; a mass influx of workers formed unique communities and fomented industrial disputes that were suppressed. The closure of the mines left ghost towns behind, with the exception of Pozo Almonte, which is neighbour to a large, active and well-kept cemetery.
The systematic framing accentuates the typology but underscores the singularity of each edifice, built as they are of a diverse variety of materials, some left unadorned, some prettified, carefully fitted out; an architect-less architecture whose realisations are part modernist house, part family chapel, part beach hut, part cot. Thus, the personal appropriation of formal norms, through these astonishing tombs, reflects the participation in History of anonymous individuals.
Jordi Colomer born in 1962 in Barcelona is a traveller between the artistic disciplines. Thus he studied art history and architecture and then he employed the principle of communicating vases between sculpture, architecture, performance, photography and theatre. In 1994-95, he made an exhaustive study of German cinema between the two World Wars, discovering in Munich Karl Valentin's work in film, which encouraged the use of video and left an important mark on his work thereafter. Also this, his newest exhibition, devotes herself to the interdependence between the disciplines, the tension between reality and fiction. Until January 2009 his project En la Pampa is shown in the Jeu de Paume in Paris to which also a book has appeared. *
From the project En la Pampa the gallery Traversée shows a videoinstallation, photographs, as well as the photo series Pozo Almonte.
*Jordi Colomer: Fuegogratis
Français / Anglais
Format : 21 x 26,5 cm
288 pages, Environ 400 images
ISBN : 978-2912132-58-1
(version espagnole : 978-2912132-57-4)
36 euros
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