Man Ray. Black and white 
Alvaro Rojas. Empty post Lately the planned purchase own life, metamorphose into other crossing to walk the path. It is always rewarding young people with projects and also reward them for it, so when Alvaro Rojas asked me a text for Injuve could not resist.
The white face of the Queen of Montparnasse horizontally intersects the vertical black African mask, checkerboard split, empty, quiet photography of Man Ray.
Empty Faces of , horizontal and white, because they seem more concerned about the African mask. They face no shadow, but which has taken its name.
are earth are stone melt into the topsoil, is inseparable from nature, are rocky, impenetrable. The core is modeled on pangea with the land. breath escapes them by the eyes. The heartbeat of mother earth, resound in-lipped as pitchers. Faces are fallen ruins of a lost civilization. And like ancient statues modeled eye glass paste, are what make them an icon that has breathed life and given a name, but must complete without the absent. Median
two years between the series and Empty Roads monuments. Not seem to maintain unity. Two different genres: portrait, landscape. Two different light: dark baroque, renaissance clear light. Knowing the biography of Alvaro Rojas , we found that both are parts of a round trip, an estrangement from his country, which lets you see the scars on the skin of people and beloved landscape, making away with a sea through which it moves away and reveals the world of that part and you discover that the world is wide and removed. Civil engineering is a whip to the ground, a black arrow that passes through the landscape, the Pan-American and faces that make your travel memories are registered as national monuments. The giant heads are killed, as the colossal head of Constantine in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museums , the bridge structures are vertebrae, which shape the body of his country as if it were a giant.
is a road-movie style experimental work of Chip Lord or Sophie Calle - Motorist, No Sex Last Night - traveled by the documental formalities of marriage Becher and where the protagonist is the car, even the road, only the night, the open wound, the monumental route trying to grasp an entire continent.
The project In first grade (2008) to be a work of gender, seems even more distant from the former, but is also designed in such a world as an archipelago, interconnected and isolated. The images alter the cultural and social stereotypes of power and submission. Every 18 seconds a woman is battered somewhere. The news of violence against women are the same in the old and the new world and its complaint through these actions and these landscapes, which acts like a curtain decorated, delimit, contain, confine them to the figures in the horror tranquil, it is equally valid in both spaces, they share in the distance, the same rate of time.
The three projects are Álvaro Rojas a search, they emerged to light boxes, mental images of a continent, of a society and a few faces.
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