Selected works
The selected works in the current edition of SCAN are:
Alejandro Chaskielberg
Alejandro Chaskielberg (Argentina): his photographic essay ‘La Creciente. The islanders of the River Parana Delta’ reflects its timelessness. The images which appear in this project form part of a more extensive work about the River Parana basin, and about the Guarani culture that exists there. They were taken on nights with a full moon, at the moment at which the water of the Delta rises and all the canals and the river itself begin to vibrate. Read more...
Laura Cuch
Laura Cuch (Spain): her project 'Sleepless' is the first of a trilogy which deals with the nature of own humanity, examining themes associated the body, health and illness. Her individual portraits of people who sleep very little were determined by dialogue with her subjects. Read more...
Amaury Da Cunha
Amaury Da Cunha (France): his work ‘Saccades’ is a collection of small daily scenes through which the artist shows the essential fragility of the world. Da Cunha converts the observer into his accomplices. Read more...
Lucia Ganieva
Lucia Ganieva (Russia): in her series 'Factory', the artist depicts a textile factory in Ivanovo, a once-important centre of the Russian textile industry, now in decline. She uses triptychs which combine images of old and new machinery, of patterned textiles from different eras and portraits of workers of different ages. Read more...
Ignacio García Gómez del Valle
Ignacio García Gómez del Valle (Spain): in the series 'The logic of supplement', the artist reflects on the way in which the elements which frame landscapes allow us to capture the integrity of a representation within the same landscape. These supplementary structures function in a way similar to brief introductory texts, defining certain conceptual areas, and so allowing the observer to reconstruct what he sees. Read more...
Tomas van Houtryve
Tomas van Houtryve (USA): the photographs in his work ‘Behind the Curtain: North Korea’ were taken in 2007 and 2008, during two trips to North Korea, the country with the most impenetrable totalitarian regime in the world. The artist, posing as an industrialist, was able to enter the country, and, despite being monitored at every moment, was able to photograph the places he was allowed to visit. Read more...
Sirio Magnabosco
Sirio Magnabosco (Italy): his piece ‘In Between Reality’ is an attempt to make sense of the relationship between an interior reality with that of space and time. By capturing those rare moments in which unknown people seem abstracted, distanced from their surroundings, the artist gives the observer the opportunity of reaching their own conclusions. Read more...
Javier Marquerie Thomas
Javier Marquerie Thomas (Spain): in his work ‘Flight of Fancy’, he presents us with a gallery of young, fictitious personalities, conceived as a sociological document witnessing the moment of contrast between the adolescent fantasy of adulthood and its reality. Read more...
Rafal Milach
Rafal Milach (Poland): in his ‘Young Russia’ project, Milach has photographed the young Russians who make up the new Russian middle class, a phenomenon much talked about but not clearly defined. In Talent Latent he presents the latest multimedia version of this photographic essay, a series of slides and images set to music. Read more...
Gemma Pardo
Gemma Pardo (Spain): her video project ‘Untitled’ shows how the floating metal hulk of a ship slowly manoeuvres until, little by little, it fills the whole screen. In this way, she eliminates any spatial reference, and constructs an almost abstract image above the deafening roar of the engines. Read more...
Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine
Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine (France): the photographic series ‘The Sojourner’, rooted in the ubiquitous metropolitan experience, goes further than the mere description of a determined urban territory. Texturing elements of different western cities, Pujade-Lauraine creates a visual dream narrative centred on atmospheric objects, places and people, with the City as a simple metaphor for surroundings. Read more...
Ángel de la Rubia
Ángel de la Rubia (Spain): his piece ‘BiH’ reflects on the dismemberment of the former Yugoslavia. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, communities live in isolation, an illusion instead of a map of a country. The artist tries to decipher this displacement and the inertia of a concept of a country that he saw breaking up when watching TV as a child. Read more...
Ahmet Unver
Ahmet Unver (Sweden): his project ’Gurbet / Far away’ analyses the cultural identity of the second generation Turkish immigrant community in Sweden, to which he himself belongs. This is a community which dreams of returning to its country of origin, despite the unspoken floating sentiment that this may never happen. Read more...
Jorge Yeregui
Jorge Yeregui (Spain): in his work ‘Minimal landscapes’, he investigates, via the photographic image, the new relationship which exists between man and nature in the twenty first century city, focusing on the construction of small ecosystems suspended within an urban setting. Read more...