COLLABORATION THROUGH FIVE CONCEPTUAL PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS
2017-2018. Bipersonal show with Nestor Siré.
Description and concept
At a conceptual level, the project draws on the development of photography in Cuba, starting from documentary photography to the recent impact of New Media on photographic processes. We intend to emphasize action, idea, memory, data and intention as a photograph in and of itself. We see photography in an unprejudiced way, from inside and outside, without fear of breaking or redefining, connecting all the aspects that constitute it; that is, photography as an expression of contemporary art. This project is the result of a collaboration that not only represents our work, but was conceived from an intellectual challenge and creative exercise in common.
Collaboration guidelines:
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Photographic process. Starting from the idea, the intention or the photographic
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Seriality. In the sense of magnitude, scope and variety of expression
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No Post-production. Keep the result as it is, the instantaneous and immediate
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Value as Information. From the represented object, the documentary record
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Present. Indicate what happens here and now.
Guidelines 1 and 3 were proposed by Nestor Siré (NS) and 2 and 4 by Yonlay Cabrera (YC). Guideline 5 was decided between the two.
Technical specifications
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Year: 2017-2018
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Technique: Bipersonal show, 5 pieces.
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Show:
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March 23, 2018. Villena Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
Credits
Direction and concept: Yonlay Cabrera, Nestor Siré
Programming: Gustavo Viera, Antonio Serrano
Design: Mauricio Vega
Promotional Spot: Néstor Siré
Production: Real Embassy of Norway in Cuba, Oficina del Historiador Ciudad de La Habana.
Presentation - Villena Gallery, Havana, Cuba
Works
ESSAY#1_#ENSAYOEXISTO
Documentation of Absence.
Technique: Installation, four cell phones, light and sound, distribution of images on various media.
Guideline to which it responds: Present.
Four cell phones were connected together form a system controlled by software. Each cell phone allows you to take a selfie. When it is activated one of them, the four take in unison a photo of the whole space. The system is connected to a server that posts in different media a progression of images composed of all the photos taken, following the scale that maintains the dimensions of the set, but that at the same time progressively reduces the size of the individual photographs.
ESSAY#1_#ENSAYOEXISTO
Technique: Photocopy of document.
Guideline to which it responds: No Post-production.
Photocopy of the official certificate of Conceptual Photography Dogma 95.
ESSAY#3_COORDINATES AND WATERCOLORS
One Phenomenon, two Interpretations.
Technique: Mixed media on cardboard.
Guideline to which it responds: Photographic Process.
Phenomenon: One of the best known images of Cuba in the whole world is a stereotyped product, oriented to the attraction of tourism.
Yonlay Cabrera begins at the moment just before taking the picture, considering pure information as a form. To do this, he establishes the geolocation coordinates and the visual angle from the specific place from which the photo was taken.
Nestor Siré considers the capturing of images oriented towards tourism. In the same places designated by YC, NS hired watercolor artists who sell their works in Old Havana to capture of place, as a mechanical action of reproduction.
The basic images are five places in Havana that were established taking into account their positioning in the Google image search engines.
Street Painters:
Erick Montes de Oca
Yaset Martín Hernández
Yaser Menéndez
Abel Amador
Luis Suárez
ESSAY#4_CONNECTIFY
NS’s idea solved by YC.
Technique: Installation, laser stamping on plastic sheets.
Guideline to which it responds: Seriality.
Registration of the names of pirated WiFi in Cuba generated through the use of Connectify software, which sells Internet access (NAUTA_ETECSA) to other users at half the official price.