Raul Mirlo

– Casa Wabi 2019

Community Project

Sin Título
The idea of these sessions was to be able to have and reflect on the image and time with the students. With all the technological changes of recent years, the photography we have and we take for granted today has left behind the analog images.
It was important to try to give some basic concepts about the professional camera, in manual mode, to talk about the measurement of light, the composition of the image, and the different variables that exist in taking the picture.
From a brief account of the history of the image, to some basic concepts of the professional camera we turn to practical examples, where students did exercises with their own classmates. From there began a certain reflection of something they always took for granted, when taking photos automatically with their cell phone.
Part of the exercises included taking pictures with film roll, photographing a roll as a team.
The students also answered a couple of questions:
“What would you say to yourself in a month?”
“What is your favorite place in school?
Each student decided that he would take in those photos, from portraits to his best friends, fruit trees that they love, or recreate scenes that have remained in their mind as they pass through the school.
The photos after revealing and printing them were sent along with their messages to each of them. As a letter or message with a delay in time.
A voice from the past, from themselves coming sometime in the future.
With the passing of the sessions, the kids were getting more excited with the exercises and their photos. I would like to go to the future, and talk with them once they receive their own images and their own words by mail.

Log-Piece

  • Sin Título (2019) Cordón del tamaño del muro principal, enrollado sobre un tronco de parota

Sin Título (2019)
Cordón del tamaño del muro principal, enrollado sobre un tronco de parota

México

Lives and works in México City.

Raúl Mirlo (1985) Lives and works in Mexico City.
Mirlo finished the SOMA Educational Program (generation 2017) and holds the title of Visual and Media Arts by CEDIM in Monterrey (2011). He also attended a Semiotics workshop at the BAU in Barcelona (2009). He has participated in various workshops with specialists such as Marwa Arsanios, Maria Virginia Jaua, Daniel Buren, Daniel Montero, Niklas Goldbach and Shahram Entekhabi.
Using different visual and plastic media such as painting, sculpture and photography, Mirlo explores the idea of space and emptiness. He understands artistic practice as a field of resistance, as a tool of uncovering and above all as a means instead of an end.
Among his individual exhibitions are: What does this room need?. Galería Progreso, Mexico City 2018; Tableau (or the difference in between one red color and another red color is the distance in between them II). INSTINC, SIngapur 2017; The difference in between one red color and another red color is the distance in between them. SOMA Project Room, Mexico City 2017; (on other spatial concepts). SOMA Project Room, Mexico City 2016; Shaheen Abu Dhabi Arthub, Abu Dhabi 2015; Unconcealment The Warehouse Gallery, Kuala Lumpur 2013; Eleutherios. Armenian Center of Contemporary and Experimental Art (White Cube / David Kareyan Hall), Yerevan 2013.
Since 2014, he is part of the study team of Luis Felipe Ortega, who attended Possessing Nature at the 56th Venice Biennale. Mirlo is currently a fellow of the Jóvenes Creadores FONCA 2018- 2019 in the category of Medios Alternativos and has been the creditor of FINANCIARTE in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2018.
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