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Photographic Portfolios, Talk and Review by Alexandre Christiaens
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTFOLIOS, TALK AND REVIEW BY ALEXANDRE CHRISTIAENS
In a context in which artistic and cultural interactions were only developed through virtuality, the SACO1.0 Biennial’s school without school program began on May 19 at 5 p.m. with a talk and subsequent portfolio review led by Belgian photographer Alexandre Christiaens at Casa Azul (a cultural self-managed project in Antofagasta, currently directed by architect Jorge Guerrero and photographer Sebastian Rojas). The artist arrived in the country invited by the International Photography Festival of Valparaíso (FIFV), thanks to the alliances that the festival has sustained with SACO since 2018.
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The objective of the activity was to generate a direct, personal and meaningful dialog between his contemporary artistic practice and that of local photographers. As an introduction to the workshop, Alexander gave a general account of his work. Those who attended were able to understand the fundamental aspects of his art linked to His eye has never ceased to the production of analog and monochrome images and, above all, his commitment to the wonder about the origins, forces landscapes he portrays. After presenting his most representative works, an open dialog was held to and immeasurable scales of nature address different questions related not only to the construction of his photographs, but also to his in constant transformation. ideological positioning as an art professional on a global scale, capable of traveling the world in search of different times, histories and memories, always from a perspective of encounter with the territories he chooses to observe. In one way or another, his eye has never ceased to wonder about the origins, forces and immeasurable scales of nature in constant transformation.
Different issues emerged from the dialog with those who joined, from the representation of the intimate and the domestic, to the more documentary aspects linked to the urban, the political and the social.
