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DESVANECIDOS

No-Lugares para No-Personas

 

Felipe Lavín se vale del video y la fotografía como radiografía social del neoliberalismo, al tensionar la relación entre la singularidad humana con el paisaje arquitectónico público, a través de imágenes alegóricas de la condición existencial del sujeto contemporáneo: se es individuo y masa al mismo tiempo. En ese sentido, la formación académica  en construcción civil y el interés autodidacta por la fotografía, le han otorgado al artista una rigurosa y creativa lucidez para reflexionar sobre la condición humana atravesada por los códigos del espacio y de la imagen.  Mediante la comprensión biopolítica  de la arquitectura como diagramación sensible de la experiencia urbana, filtrada por el rendimiento de la  imagen en movimiento  como aproximación poética a lo real, F. Lavín propone un  diagnóstico representativo de la crisis del humanismo en la era del capitalismo global. Como ya lo señaló Marshall Berman a propósito de la tercera fase de la modernidad: se trata de la paradoja de la unión en la desunión. He ahí el motivo fundamental tematizado por el artista: si somos no-personas­ que transitan por no-lugares, es que estamos unidos y condenados a una soledad que nos colectiviza.

 

El proyecto Desvanecidos plantea una pregunta social pero también óptica, que bien podría haberle interesado a los hermanos Lumière o a Matilde Pérez, icónica representante chilena del arte cinético. La serie de registros videofotográficos de F. Lavín también puede leerse en la intersección artística de ambas tradiciones: el documental etnográfico europeo junto a la abstracción geométrica latinoamericana son condensados en la misma imagen. Son obreros saliendo de la fábrica cuyas subjetividades cromáticas se ven esfumadas en líneas rectas que trascienden su tránsito cotidiano ¿Qué es lo que queda si trazamos un horizonte ficticio, separando la figuración de la abstracción en la obra? Sencillamente, barras de colores verticales que perturban nuestra mirada, ya que no sabemos cuál es su dirección en función a los cuerpos. Lo cierto es que todas las posibilidades físicas no resueltas pero sugeridas en la imagen, implican una fuerte interpretación en el plano de lo simbólico. De ese modo, F. Lavín le otorga al espectador la posibilidad lúdica de adoptar un posicionamiento al respecto de la disputa de dos fuerzas opuestas, en un panorama general de positivos y negativos en el que es cada vez más difícil vislumbrar zonas intermedias. Aunque habitemos en no-lugares depende de nosotros resignificarlos, para así dejar de ser no-personas.

 

Antonio Urrutia Luxoro

Curador y editor independiente.

Non-places for Non-people

Felipe Lavín makes use of video and photography as social radiography of neoliberalism, by straining the relation between human singu- larity and the public architectural landscape, using evocative images if the existential condition of the contemporary subject: being mass and individual all at the same time. In this sense, his academic background in Civil Engineering and his self-taught interest for fotography has provided him of a rigorous and creative clarity when reflecting upon the human condition and its intersections with the code of the image and space. By understanding the biopolitical dimension of architecture as a sensitive diagram for urban experience -filtered by the potential of the moving picture as a poetic approximation to the real- F.Lavín proposes a representative diagnosis of the crisis of hu- manism in the age of global capitalism. As Marshall Berman pointed out regarding the third stage of modernity: It is the paradox of unity within detachment. This is the fundamental concern turned into a motif by the artist: If we have become non-people that transit through non-places, we are both united and condemned by a solitude that collectivizes us.

The Faded project not only brings up a social question, but an optical one, which could have been interesting to the likes of the Lumiere bros. or even to Matilde Pérez, an iconic representative of kinetic art in Chile. The series of video-photographic registers of F.Lavín can also be read in the artistic intersection of both traditions: the european ethnographic documentary alongside the latin american geometric abstraction are both condensed into a same image. Workers leaving the factory, whose chromatic subjectivities fade into straight lines that transcend their daily flux. What does it remain if we trace a fictional horizon, separating the figurative from the abstract elements in the work? Simply put, vertical color bars that disrupt our gaze, since we ignore their orientation in regard of the bodies, What is certain is that all the physical possibilities -unresolved but still suggested in the image- imply strong relations in the symbolic level. This way, F.Lavín allows the viewer for a playful possibility to engage and take part in a dispute between two opposing forces, within a general landscape of positives and negatives where it is increasingly difficult to find intermediate areas. Even though we dwell in non-places, it is up to us to resignify them, and hence stop being non-people.

 

 

Antonio Urrutia Luxoro

Independent Curator and editor.

“Desvanecidos - CDMX I” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 150x215 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out)

“Desvanecidos - CDMX III” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 150x215 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - CDMX II” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 150x215 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - CDMX XIII” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 150x215 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - Montreal X” - 2023 - Photomontage Cotton Paper 215x150 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP Backlight - 215x150 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - CDMX XXXI” - 2023 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out) Backlight - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - CDMX XXIX” - 2023 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP Backlight - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

Desvanecidos - CDMX X (100x70) 2020

“Desvanecidos - CDMX X” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out) Backlight - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - CDMX XX” - 2023 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP Backlight - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - CDMX XXIII” - 2023 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP Backlight - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - CDMX XXVI” - 2023 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP Backlight - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - CDMX XV” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP Backlight - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - Buenos Aires V” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP Backlight - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - CDMX XXII” - 2023 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 101,6 x 152,4 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP Backlight - 101,6 x 152,4 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - CDMX XII” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 101,6 x 152,4 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out) Backlight - 101,6 x 152,4 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - CDMX VII” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 101,6 x 152,4 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP Backlight - 101,6 x 152,4 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - Montreal XII” - 2023 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 101,6 x 152,4 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out) Backlight - 101,6 x 152,4 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - CDMX XXI” - 2023 - Photomontage Cotton Paper 152,4 x101,6 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP Backlight - 152,4 x101,6 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - CDMX XXVII” - 2023 - Photomontage Cotton Paper 152,4 x101,6 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP Backlight - 152,4 x101,6 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - Montreal VIII” - 2023 - Photomontage Cotton Paper 152,4 x101,6 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP Backlight - 152,4 x101,6 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - CDMX VI” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper 150 x117 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP Backlight - 125 x87 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - CDMX XXIV” - 2023 - Photomontage Cotton Paper 150 x117 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP Backlight - 125 x87 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - Montreal IX” - 2023 - Photomontage Cotton Paper 150 x117 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP Backlight - 125 x87 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - CDMX V” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 150x117 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out)

“Desvanecidos - Montreal I” - 2022 - Photomontage Cotton Paper 215x150 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out) Backlight - 243,84x365,76 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - Montreal III” - 2022 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 150x117 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out)

“Desvanecidos - CDMX XVIII” - 2023 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 150x244 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP Backlight - 185x300 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

Desvanecidos - CDMX XIX (150x244 cm) (185x300 cm lightbox) 2023 BAJA

“Desvanecidos - CDMX XIX” - 2023 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 150x244 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP Backlight - 185x300 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - Montreal VI” - 2022 - Photomontage Cotton Paper 152,4 x101,6 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out) Backlight - 152,4 x101,6 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out)

“Desvanecidos - Montreal V” - 2022 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 215x150 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out)

“Desvanecidos - CDMX XXVIII” - 2023 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out) Backlight - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - Montreal II” - 2022 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 101,6 x 152,4 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out) Backlight - 101,6 x 152,4 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - Santiago I” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 150x215 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - CDMX IV” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 150x215 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - Santiago IV” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 150x215 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP Cotton Paper - 110x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out)

“Desvanecidos - Santiago V” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 150x215 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP Backlight - 70x49 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out)

“Desvanecidos - Santiago VII” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 150x215 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - CDMX IX” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 150x100 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP Backlight - 150x100 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out)

“Desvanecidos - Montreal VII” - 2022 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out) Backlight - 70x49 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - Montreal IV” - 2022 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out) Backlight -70x49 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - CDMX XVII” - 2022 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out)

“Desvanecidos - Buenos Aires IV” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 160x110 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out)

“Desvanecidos - Buenos Aires III” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

“Desvanecidos - CDMX XI” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out)

“Desvanecidos - CDMX VIII” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 152,4x101,6 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP Backlight -70x49 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out)

“Desvanecidos - Lima I” - 2019 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 150x215 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (sold out)

“Desvanecidos - Lima II” - 2019 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 150x215 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (sold out)

“Desvanecidos - Santiago III” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 150x215 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (sold out)

“Desvanecidos - Buenos Aires II” - 2019 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (sold out)

“Desvanecidos - Buenos Aires I” - 2019 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (sold out)

“Desvanecidos - Santiago VI” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (sold out)

“Desvanecidos - Santiago II” - 2020 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 100x70 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (sold out)

“Desvanecidos - Rosenthaler Platz” - 2019 Photomontage Cotton Paper - 60x37 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP (Sold Out)

“Desvanecidos - Voltastrasse” - 2019 - Photomontage Cotton Paper - 60x37 cm - Edition of 3 + 2AP

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