Antonio Guerra

Antonio Guerra

Antonio Guerra reflects, through photography and installation, on the transformation processes of the landscape and our perception of it through images. The projects he presents at Saisho, "Elevar la tierra", "Horizontes de sucesos", and "Comportamiento para un simulacro", share the intervention of the landscape as raw material through which to express his ideas, such as humanity's abuse of the environment and its fragility, or the symbolic associations we have with the landscape from a cultural point of view.

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Lifting the Earth

Based on a hybrid body of work that moves between photography, sculpture, and installation, Lifting the Earth, Disappearing establishes connections between the processes of anthropogenic transformation derived from the mining industry and those of image production. To do this, Antonio Guerra has focused his work on three mining sites: La Gran Corta de Fabero, in León, which became the largest open-pit coal extraction site in Europe, the Riotinto Mines, in Huelva, particularly focused on copper and iron, and the mines of El Sabinar, in Alicante, a significant site in the case of ocher.

3 works in the series
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Behavior for a Simulation

Antonio Guerra has developed a work that problematizes photographic representation as a space for producing knowledge about reality. His discourse positions itself as a response to that contemporary eye that has become passive, uncritical, and that opulently digests everything offered to it. In this way, his proposal is born from an aesthetic and intellectual exercise that is organized around some of the problematic areas of contemporary photographic images. To do this, he subverts schemes, questions usual notions, dissects the status of veracity, links the image with the territory, hybridizes different disciplines, and establishes unexpected relationships between objects, environment, and the photographic medium. His most recent production is configured from a narrative plot modulated by landscape, a concept that Antonio Guerra understands as a transitive space resulting from the interaction between society, culture, and nature.

4 works in the series
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Event Horizons

Event Horizon is a concept that confirms the theory of relativity. In the field of black holes, the Event Horizon is a barrier, a hyper-surface, a boundary of spacetime that prevents an external observer from seeing what happens inside, but someone at the epicenter that swallows light could see what happens on the other side. There is a mysterious relationship between photography and sculpture. Antonio Guerra's reflective work resides in a secret intersection of coordinates, where sculptures intervene in space and photographs in time. Nature is a stage, and here photography is the instrument that shapes and constructs the landscape. Folds, erosions, quarries, parched lands, ruins, wounds of the geography we traverse in Event Horizons, are sutured with reflection through the image of an observer situated at the margins.

7 works in the series
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No Marked Route

Jorge Luis Borges recounted in a short text “On the Rigor of Science” the ambition of an imaginary group of imperial cartographers who, in their desire for perfection, ended up creating a map of the empire that was the same size as the empire itself. According to Borges, that perfect map ended up being useless. What follows is the original text. As in Borges's story, every day thousands of kilometers are covered by Google Street View cars, capturing our roads and streets, expanding the areas where it is already available. A first glance at the map gives the impression that a large part of the world has been mapped, but if we zoom in, there are still areas that escape the control of their cameras. Taking different Google Street View maps as a reference, I was interested in the places that escape their control, the gaps that form the layout of their cars. I have created a series of pieces that trace this “Borgesian map” of the world.

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