Aglae Cortés

– Casa Wabi 2023

Community Project

The rapid technological development of photography in recent years leads us to believe that it has existed since the beginning of history. Its continuous presence in our daily lives has made the image the most significant cultural product of the 21st century. I believe that when a discipline appears to be elevated to this level, it’s time to ask it some questions.

Its main objective is to pause in the midst of the daily flood of images and reconsider them from less-traveled perspectives. George Bataille once said: “Art is childhood regained at will.” Here, the concept of the minor is in harmony with uninhibited childhood and, in turn, aligns with humanity’s historical timeline when images were the primary language long before writing.

Log-Piece

El divino femenino
Natural pigments on cardboard and cotton paper.
20 x 25 x 3 cm

Mexico

Sonora, 1977

Freelance photographer and teacher. She lives and works between Mexico City and Hermosillo

The engine of his activity is Time because it is a problematic concept and ungraspable to our understanding and considers that images are capable of putting us in a different place to what they say chronological time and place us in the absolute. Her interrogations pursue the original heartbeat lost in the name of modern functioning from one of the greatest mysteries
of man: the mystery of language. With images and “words of this world”* She undertakes a saga to return to the most immemorial time. In recent years the processes in her work explore the problem of representation, the poetics of photography and its natural links to literature. Her| Practice is a constant research that seeks to expand the limits of both visual and written language.
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