Juan Cevallos - Photographer

Back to Abnormality

During the days of quarantine, the city was transformed into a hostile place for people in general, locked in my room, with the aim of being in contact with the outside again, I transformed my room into a camera obscura that projected images of the outside world inside my room. Thus, I made a series of five images on photographic paper of the different points of view of my neighborhood visible from the only window of my room. Inside the camera (my room) my body was also in contact with the photographic paper during the exposure of the photographs and it was fixed on the paper like a silhouette. 

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From the different points of view of my window, I print the buildings, streets, and trees of my neighborhood, the outside world is printed upside down, and its colors are inverted in an opposite and unnatural way. My body, which is a real object on the photographic paper, fixes its emanations and shows itself transparent, without figuration and empty. In these images, my body is amalgamated with the outside world combining two dimensions of time and space, where I feel trapped in a Platonic cave reconnecting with the world through images projected on the wall.

My photographs have a melancholic temperament that shows a desire to merge the limits of " the self" into the infinity of the projected images of the outside world. These photographs are a product of the deep longing for freedom that defines my desire to return to abnormality.

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Format: Camera Obscura / Photograms / Analogue, 150 x 90 cm

Praha
2020.