Una poética de la catástrofe
By: Ariel Ballester
Publisher: Ediciones ArtexArte de la Fundación Alfonso y Luz Castillo
Published: 2019
Place of publication: CABA, Argentina
Language: spa
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9789874695178
Subjects: Photography; History; Artistic Photography; Pictorial works
Work titles: Photographs
Description: The bookhas comprises three series made between 2008 and 2019: "Territorios Vacios", a series configured along eleven years of work (2008-2019) identified in a zone where the industrial and residential juxtapose; "Ruinas de Epecuén" are a 2011 series of photographs of the desolated landscape of Villa Epecuén (destroyed in a flood in 1985) and later abandoned and "Construir la memoria" the series that are part of the reflexive line in which temporality takes over photography but, in this case, there is a hybridization with a complex and multiple network of technological devices whose axis is determined by the web. In Ballester's series, absence is the recurring sign of these images; outdoors are the architectural structures or their ruins but also the helpless gestures of those who inhabited them. "The photographer (Ballester) is there and, in an almost archaeological sense, explores the ruins to connect them with our present.".
Table of contents: title: Territorios vacios; title: Ruinas de Epecuén; title: Construir la memoria; title: Poetics of the catastrophe: attempts on the work of Ariel Ballester / Jorge Zuzulich.