So-Called Photography: Pandora

BELINDA GAREN

20 February - 4 April 2020

Pandora is a project linked to the subtle eroticism of photographs of the beginning of the last century. It is a box of virtues in which different interdisciplinary experiences linked to analog photography are combined. The camera as an object is also the protagonist: it is the creator and container of images. Like the Greek mythology characters that Belinda wants to represent, this tool is a fetish that is linked to eroticism and must be beautiful, seductive and intriguing, to have the qualities that link it to its models, to meet the objectives of the project.

To reach her goals, Belinda Garen, who for years worked with a digital camera, went through a long learning process related to analog photographic techniques and the use of the different cameras she chose for this project, which were not randomly selected, but due to their characteristics, required an intense search.

Her practice in recent years, linked to performance and object-trouvé, led her to consolidate this project in which these two disciplines are fundamental to generate a new apprehension of the photographic image; it follows from an in-depth analysis related to the large number of images that are produced day by day, which flow through the different visual media.

Belinda is motivated to work this interdiscipline in which she also adds  poetry that complements the transit through each of the installations.

A career of twenty years of photographic work of which more than ten were dedicated to the aesthetics of eroticism, in which she achieved technical perfection, prompted her to take a turn and now look for new conceptual proposals, as well as new ways to create, fighting between love and heartbreak towards images, in which the ritual of the great production of images, the care of the composition, the selection of the classic beauty of its models accentuated by the erotic handling of the image prevail. Each mythical character is selected according to the formal canons that she considers appropriate, with which she could achieve the best photographic results.

The main thing for Belinda in this project, is the ritual of production of the best staging and the experience of the performative and ephemeral act of photographic shooting, which will be irretrievably lost when the plate is veiled immediately after the shot. The detachment to the photographic image will be consolidated.

A negative FujiFilm and a veiled plate are the only witnesses that there was a latent image that will never be known.

For Belinda, every undisclosed image is a shout against the suffocating volume of images that are produced and spread minute by minute, but at the same time it is a way to sublimate a creative moment, which was trapped in veiled silver halides

Emma Cecilia García Krinsky

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