The Interior
Photographic series - William Srodek-Hart
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The Interior-like all-is a false image says "Caparros in his book entitled," The Interior ". This image that suggests the author refers to rural stereotypes: the bucolic landscape, the animals, simple life, and quiet with no events. The mate and nap and you're done synthesis. The photograph is an expert in reinforcing stereotypes: not only to ensures that endures over time but has been complicit in the conception of them.
When I talk to people in my rural trips their first suggestions when they see my pictures is to let me to places where there are gorgeous landscapes and many animals. I seek to represent the image of the rural world and build my own landscape based on what I see when travelling.
It is impossible not to notice the rout altars at the side of the roads all red. They are usually from El Gauchito Gil, the most popular pagan saint form the interior of the country and Argentina in its whole. It is amazing how it has spread reaching cities also. But the essence of the myth comes from the country side and so does him. Continues Caparros: “Antonio Gil I the interior made belief” Antonio Gill is the Gaucheness made superstition.
As well as the altars or the sculptures at the side of the roads are at my understanding artistic interventions, installations and finally photographs that are witness against the concept of the rural inhabitant as someone simple, harmless and aims to show an complex and sophisticated image.
Guillermo is an argentine photographer that has studied in Boston, United States, in the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and in Mass College of Art. “I am interested in photographing places that shows evidence of the intersection between devotion and popular culture. Mostly I feel attracted to those manifestations in rural societies, how ever I don’t exclude cities.”
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