Photography by Andrés Boero Madrid

Abstract

In his work, Andrés Boero expresses the transitory character of the human being observing the transformations of culture and nature in the place where he lives: the outflow of a river. Deconstruction is a project that investigates its direct relationship with the landscape, starting point and source of inspiration, where the creative process becomes more relevant than the final result. Through different treks through the village, the banks of the river, the wetlands and the mountain, Boero observes how nature and man change reciprocally.

From the displacement through the territory arises the contact with the material: mud, wood and its mutation by means of water, air and fire. Fabrics installed in the river, on the ground, under the trees, to see how the environment expresses itself and leaves its mark on them. Trunks found, modified by water and then by the artist's hands. Mud also takes on great relevance in Boero's work, as a material that denotes temporality, which is in constant transition, determined by the absence and presence of water.

 Deconstruction is a practice of observation and learning throughout the territory, in search of an abstract formality, with no pre-established idea beyond the encounter with the environment. Almost as a sketch, the photographs are the testimony of a process, which is the work itself.

 This project was supported by the Regional Funds for Culture of the Ministerio de Educación y Cultura (2017) and developed during 2018. The work has been exhibited at the Museo Municipal Profesor Roselli in Nueva Palmira (Uruguay) and at the Museo Lacán Guazú in Dolores (Uruguay).

Andrés Boero Madrid, Uruguay, 1983.

Filmmaker and Visual Artist, his work reflects on man and landscape from Latin American identity and memory. He graduated as Director of Photography from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. He has exhibited in different cultural spaces, such as the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Museo Lacán Guazú, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo and Centro de Exposiciones Subte. He is currently carrying out a residency project for artists in Villa Soriano, a small town in the Uruguayan countryside, promoting the decentralization of contemporary artistic production.

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