OSCAR SANTILLAN: Photographs

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Photographs

Cascade

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2011

Water Worm

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2010

Water Halo

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2010

Twelve Water Drops

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2010

Untitled (Breath and Dust)

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2010

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aninajAug 9, 2010 12:23 PM
ey Oscar chevere por el Salón! Abrazos pana
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AnonymousSep 21, 2010 09:35 PM
Ohh I remember this piece! Is a famous piece called Mystical Silence. Famous artist from Ecuador!!!!
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artist STATEMENT

A few years ago I renounced my political beliefs. By getting rid of the ideological superstitions and fraudulent morals of social utopias, I awoke to phenomenological thinking. In fact, I am not a citizen anymore; I am a wanderer who sneaks into the gaps of perception, history, and culture itself.

If there is something I am willing to create, it will be a device able to fill the gap in between clocks and calendars. If there is a rebellion I am willing to join, it is the one where the crowd whispers their demands. If there is a problem I am trying to solve, it is how to turn history into an empty skin with no past.

Manipulating materials through a meticulous process is at the core of my practice. This becomes evident in Memorial, where I extract the ink from the New York Times and transform it into a miniature deer. Or, in The Permanent Blink where I stitch together every blink by James Dean from all of his films to create a single video. Stripping the material’s embedded history is necessary to fit it into an unexpected body so that it can become a new flesh.

Therefore, my work is not about silence or erasure, but about mutation: how to transform marble into air, and air into flesh. It is about carefully creating a phantom while offering it a new body to inhabit.

I aim for a way to cast mood instead of building up meaning. Mood must suspend interpretation by inflaming the spectator’s sensibility.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

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