Javier Álvarez (2 projects)
Santiago Belaunzaran
Andrea Birnbaum
Angela Boehm
Annette Bonnier (2 projects)
Esha Chiocchio (2 projects)
{Please note: Javier has completed two projects, scroll down to view both.}
ARTIST: JAVIER ÁLVAREZ
PROJECT: PREDIO
PREDIO PROJECT DESCRIPTION
In 2013, I started visiting the "Marconi" building, where I began documenting the lives of 400 people squatting inside a 13-floor former office building, located in Sao Paulo´s downtown. During this process, I became part of the community while I was living there, for periods of 6 to 8 weeks at a time, sometimes 2 or 3 times a year. The full body of work consists of a series of photographs, video interviews, and collages.
On the thirteen floors of the Marconi squat, nearly four hundred people are waiting for a dignified housing solution. Within it, the notion of home (a space of emotional relationships and identity), becomes fleeting because of memories and expectations of a more stable future. Marconi is a place where life stories share common experiences of nostalgia and loss.
ARTIST: JAVIER ALVAREZ
PROJECT: GOLD, BONES, DUST & LUST
gold, bones, dust & lust PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Seems like a tough place to live? Well, it is. Generations of men tried to cross from East to West through the main wagon path in what it is now the city of Denver. Everyone lost someone, buried deep in the soil.
Bones and dust.
Where before there was an ocean, now only fossils remain. This path was made out of dust. Bones and dust. Digging deep, blinded by the shine of gold fever. The sun bounces off a river made of cars, crushing stones in its path, one by one. Neon, shining in the dark with endless glow filling up the cracks of that rotten Colfax motel.
Gold, bones, dust & lust.
The sun, the gold, the cars, the neon. Leftovers of human trace that were thrown away like cigarette butts. This is what I found here. Here is where I dug. This is my gold.
ARTIST BIO
Javier Álvarez (Santiago de Chile, 1988) is a documentary photographer with a special interest in social issues, focused on human relationships in neglected communities.
Alvarez's work has been exhibited, published, granted and/or distributed in Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Brazil, Sweden, Canada, Italy, and the USA.
Currently based in Brooklyn, NYC. Contributor in MidiaNinja