Letters to Ultramarine

Fragments of the discomforts that surround me, collected from the urban, upper middle class, latin-american landscape, stressed by the echoes of colonialism and the footsteps of globalised capitalism.

In Letters to Ultramarine I attempt to create an anthology of the discomforts that surround me, collecting fragments from the urban, upper middle class, latin american landscape stressed by the echoes of colonialism and the footsteps of globalised capitalism.

As outdated an exogenous models of progress quietly, but violently, shape the environment, I run out of landmarks and out of solid ground to set my feet on. From buildings to trees, everything looks like a function of a culture whose main purpose is the consumption, but that nevertheless produces nothingness. Anthropocene heterogeneous foam expands, suffocating everything, and smashing me inbetween the beauty of the sight and the rage of reality.

It becomes harder and harder to navigate through the scenario hypercodified, and yet, deprived from deeper meaning. But carefully observing these pieces of absence that surround me, I seek to modulate the unavoidable tension sparked by growing up in this environment where meaningful bonds and experiences are build amid (and, sometimes, drawing from) intense cultural interference.

This work has been partially developed under the scope of Parallel: European Photo Based Platform.