JARDIN DE MI PADRE - Luis Carlos Tovar
Guerrilla fighters sent a Polaroid snapshot of their captive to his family as proof that he was still alive. This project starts from the search for this uncertain photograph, but reflects a process of rediscovery that transcends the event itself. It's a poetic exercise that speaks to our finitude and contingent nature, exploring the legacy of the past as our only mode of survival.
The absence of this fetish photograph activates a performative visual essay that uses the mechanisms of appropriation and collage to take autobiographical and documentary photography out of their conventional frameworks. Co-published with Musée de l'Elysée, texts by Luis Carlos Tovar, Joan Fontcuberta, Lydia Dorner, Tatyana Franck, María Santoyo and Cristina Lleras.
The book Jardín de mi padre by Colombian artist Luis Carlos Tovar is inspired by the idea of post-memory as an exercise in imaginative reconstruction of lived experience, as a therapy spanning generations that gives voice to what has been marginalized and produces new empathies with the past. - Joan Fontcuberta
Published by Editorial RM 2020
20 cm × 28 cm, 240 pages, new
ISBN 9788417975371
Guerrilla fighters sent a Polaroid snapshot of their captive to his family as proof that he was still alive. This project starts from the search for this uncertain photograph, but reflects a process of rediscovery that transcends the event itself. It's a poetic exercise that speaks to our finitude and contingent nature, exploring the legacy of the past as our only mode of survival.
The absence of this fetish photograph activates a performative visual essay that uses the mechanisms of appropriation and collage to take autobiographical and documentary photography out of their conventional frameworks. Co-published with Musée de l'Elysée, texts by Luis Carlos Tovar, Joan Fontcuberta, Lydia Dorner, Tatyana Franck, María Santoyo and Cristina Lleras.
The book Jardín de mi padre by Colombian artist Luis Carlos Tovar is inspired by the idea of post-memory as an exercise in imaginative reconstruction of lived experience, as a therapy spanning generations that gives voice to what has been marginalized and produces new empathies with the past. - Joan Fontcuberta
Published by Editorial RM 2020
20 cm × 28 cm, 240 pages, new
ISBN 9788417975371
Guerrilla fighters sent a Polaroid snapshot of their captive to his family as proof that he was still alive. This project starts from the search for this uncertain photograph, but reflects a process of rediscovery that transcends the event itself. It's a poetic exercise that speaks to our finitude and contingent nature, exploring the legacy of the past as our only mode of survival.
The absence of this fetish photograph activates a performative visual essay that uses the mechanisms of appropriation and collage to take autobiographical and documentary photography out of their conventional frameworks. Co-published with Musée de l'Elysée, texts by Luis Carlos Tovar, Joan Fontcuberta, Lydia Dorner, Tatyana Franck, María Santoyo and Cristina Lleras.
The book Jardín de mi padre by Colombian artist Luis Carlos Tovar is inspired by the idea of post-memory as an exercise in imaginative reconstruction of lived experience, as a therapy spanning generations that gives voice to what has been marginalized and produces new empathies with the past. - Joan Fontcuberta
Published by Editorial RM 2020
20 cm × 28 cm, 240 pages, new
ISBN 9788417975371
