NYAB Event - Raul Rodriguez and Therese + Joel "Artiﬁcial Paradises"

Raul Rodriguez and Therese + Joel "Artiﬁcial Paradises"

Local Project

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The fundamental motivation of this project is to raise the idea of “city” as an artiﬁcial paradise. Without creating any judgment, it is a reﬂection of the reality of the spaces in which citizens live together in large cities. The sequence of photographs becomes a performance of a neutral, faceless, synthesized character. This character roams on a structure; also neutral, geometric, organized, created by humans. The performance then becomes “sense” with “the world of ideas and culture” inherited from the history of mankind. A representation of individual and space dismantled, without any armor or appearance that could dress and shape. Just being present in the same space, raw and synthesized, interacting with both neutralized individual and space. No frills or learned presentations of any kind.

Abstracting spectators from their realities, so that they may make an objective look carefully, at a distance, pausing in the frantic everyday movement that builds and shapes their lives and cities.