Concealment Beyond Togetherness
Face concealment represents a different way of being. It invites us to revise existing canons, aesthetics and conventions. The way we establish relations with the others. A self-inflicted isolation creates a high degree of social distance, building a boundary of privacy. It occludes thoughts, feelings and actions.
The deliberated attempt for not being there, or being differently, is a rupture of reciprocity that causes some distress and changes our societal relations. Are these values/attributes put forward in a way that they represent a barrier or a bridge? A form of exclusion or selected inclusion?
By hiding their faces in different fabrics, the subjects portrayed in this series explain something about them, and at the same time raise interrogations and doubts. These images question history and culture, making us rethink the notions of time, place, and predictability. They are darkness and revelation, A failure to communicate in two senses.
Eduardo López Moreno, Mexico, Ciudad de Guadalajara
