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Gerardo Castillo Corona
Biography
He has a BA in Design and Visual Communication with a specialization in Photography, he graduated from FAD – UNAM. As part of his studies, he attended the Contemporary Photography Seminar at the Centro de la Imagen. As a result of the studies of that year, the artwork “Memoria Objetual” (“Objectual Memory”) was created, which is exhibited in the Sor Juana Cloister as an individual exhibition. He has been selected as part of the XIX Photography Biennal of the Centro de Imagen, with the project INFORME. Recently, he has continued his education with interdisciplinary courses in wardrobe and stage design.
ARTWORK
Informe o El Agobiante anhelo de ser todo, menos humanos (The Smothering Yearning For Being Everything But Humans)
Still Image
INFORME OR THE SMOTHERING YEARNING FOR BEING EVERYTHING BUT HUMANS. 2018 Informe (Formless): adj. without the required shape, figure, or perfection.
“(…) Informe (Formless) is not just an adjective with a certain meaning, but also a term used to denigrate, generally demanding that everything should have its shape…
“Informe” (l’informe) by Georges Bataille in the surrealist journal “Documents” (1929)
This series of hybrid bodies created as half characters that exist in real life, half post-production constructions, was created in 2018. Without the desire to be a premonition, it found a path that we all suffered in 2020: the arrogant desire to explore ourselves, to exist and to be in spite of distance: omnipresence, as they call it.
Whether it’s because of evolution or competitiveness, we aim to be AllPresent, AllKnowledgeable, AllInterested, even AllSuffering. But, where does all of this takes us to if we’re always in the middle of a temporal whirlwind, where the body can barely be enough to be a body? when will it be enough to be body, time, and space?
