LUIS PAREDES - ARCHIVOS DEL ANTROPOCENO

I.    This series of photographs exhibited at Diana Lowenstein Gallery is part of a
      collection of visual essays that explore themes of the future.

II.   The photographs are inspired by phenomena within the Anthropocene period.
      Some works reveal a kind of magic or a harbinger of the future, while others 
      seem to be the record of the future already becoming the past or archaeology.

III.  These images attempt to express my perception about the possible scenarios
      of a future world increasingly influenced by technology, the manipulation of
      genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, as well as space exploration, among
      other themes. These topics transform our existence into a reality that a few
      decades ago only existed within science fiction.

IV.  The photographs have been developed from a selection of negatives that were
      recovered after a fire in my studio. The images in the emulsion of these negatives
      had undergone a transformation that testified to the catastrophe that transformed
      the original form of each one.

V.   Subsequently, I worked with digital techniques to develop the specific story for
      each image. These disturbing images present a summary of the entire process.
      They arouse interest and/or curiosity to understand the meaning they hide
      without ever fulling revealing it, always leaving us captivated by the history of
      each work.

VI.  These works exist as jargons pretending to be records of posterity, fragments or
       archaeological findings, or perhaps even archives of extraterrestrial explorers
       studying the present, the past and the future of life on our planet.

       -Luis Paredes