"Cuban's granddaughter" is a non-narrative project, a photographed memory intertwined in the past and in the present .
To do this, I bring together family archive images and my own images, all taken in the surroundings of the village of Touro, A Coruña, the place of origin of my maternal family. There is a generation gap between these images, and most of them are taken through the same instrument (the same 35mm camera). In this way I intend to weave a story in a non-linear, rather intuitive time and create a visual space-time open to transformations, to the coexistence of places, people and objects, an imaginary projection of time.
The “image-time” concepts especially attract me since they affect the general vision with which the study of reality is approached . Time, for example, is not directly perceptible but rather as a parameter of change. Photography, however, by its very nature, isolates or selects an instant from a continuum. With these images I try to escape from the nostalgic idea inherent in photography as a way of recreating a moment from the past, to speak of the present, of itself as an object that is being itself. Thus, in “La granddaughter of the Cuban” there are multiple vanishing points that relate objects, places and people to each other without taking into account said temporal factor.
Fragment extracted from the novel "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut :
" There are no telegrams in Tralfamadore. Each pile of symbols is a brief and urgent message that describes a situation, a scene. We read them all at once and not one after the other. So when you see them all at once they give a wonderful, surprising and intense image of life. There is no beginning, there is no middle, there is no ending. There are no causes, there are no effects. What we like about our books is the depth of many moments seen all at once "
At the same time there is a research work and configuration of a family identity through the Galician landscape . The landscape is full of meanings and symbolic values that make up our imaginary and with which I dialogue through photography. Our environment involuntarily influences our conception of reality and our emotions. In this way I seek our own identity through a rural landscape, with its own personality and that feeds a metaphysical need for self-knowledge, back to the origin.
- Cris P. Lareo
self-published book
Print run: 100 copies
Binding: Rustic sewn with thread.
Pages: 104
Format: 14 x 20 cm
Spanish Language
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