A photographer explores the relationship between man and marginal areas of Mexico City
A dump, a residential area of concrete or a football stadium without grass are some urban landscapes that the artist Pablo Lopez Luz presents in its exhibition Terrazo, in the galleries Del Bosque and Nacho Lopez.
Through 26 photographs, the author tries to show man's relationship with the landscape of marginal and peripheral areas of the city, where people might not find an aesthetic composition.
"It was very important to rescue certain characteristics that have photographic Mexico City, which is surrounded by mountains and valleys. The interesting work is to see how people find a place to live, "said Lopez.
While others had made presentations on urban landscape, the artist in this project shows that constant morphology that exists in some areas of the city for an unplanned growth.
In this exhibition, Lopez rescues and privileges the aesthetic extremes of sites, chaotic everyday. Explore these sites to reveal the spectator part existential, beauty and harmony of the marginalized areas.
The other beauty of the city
The sites are gathered from an objective perspective that emphasizes a certain kind of microscopic self-sufficiency. "People remain very important spaces that feel like a soccer stadium in the middle of urban areas."
At first landscapes are very strong, he added Lopez-Luz, but they are beautiful, that part is mixed with natural human hand. It's the other beauty of the city, the growth in the concrete that is the beauty of people who survive or passing through these places.
"At the exhibition there are one or two landscapes in which the distance are new construction in Santa Fe Interlomas or, in some way end up on top of buildings in marginalized areas," said Paul Lopez.
As in other Latin American countries, Mexico is not immune to growth messy, but this is different: "In the case of Mexico City, topographical features are diverse, we have landscapes of concrete at a time were valleys or mountains . Unlike Brazil, where massive human settlements are known as favelas. "
In the sample, including a photograph of Argentina and four in northern Colombia, "to illustrate this growth on the beach and the desert," said the photographer.
With curated by Itzel Vargas Plata, the sample Terrazo, Pablo Luz Lopez, will conclude on October 26 in the galleries of Forest and Nacho Lopez (Bosque de Chapultepec First Section).
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