Research Catalog

Title

Testigos del desarraigo = : witness of the uprooting / Marylee Coll ; conceptualización y texto = concept and text : Ruth Auerbach.

Author

Coll, Marylee

Publication

Caracas : Beatriz Gil Galería, 2018.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Auerbach, Ruth
• Beatriz Gil Galería, host institution.

Description

55 pages : color illustrations; 17x 25 cm

Summary

A series of 60 images from the latest photo essay by visual artist Marylee Coll is presented as the result of an extensive and thorough visual inquiry carried out during the last decade, inside several houses in the city of Caracas. In this unusual series of images there is a vast inventory of objects, equipment and furniture attributed to other times and geographical latitudes; a fascinating aesthetic repertoire of indistinct stylistic origin confined today to the theatricality distanced from domestic scenarios that, when revealed by the curious look of the artist, trace a fragmented and anachronistic story that exposes, without apparent nostalgia, a conjunctural chapter and the dramatic corollary of contemporary Venezuela. These unique records that tell - always in the absence of its inhabitants - the possible narratives of the place and the inanimate objects it houses, will be interpreted from the observer's vouyeristic perception as the testimony that documents that other recent history of uprooting and abandonment - which also It is a metaphor for a country in conflict. This suggestive portfolio of images focuses on the functional and decorative content present in numerous homes and buildings where the usual "garage sales" are made. Homes and shelters of a middle and upper class in Caracas that once belonged to people who have died and forgotten or, in most cases, to entire families who, for various reasons, have decided to leave the country. As the task of the ethnographer, Marylee Coll uses these extreme circumstances to document not only the way in which the dynamics of an informal economy that has prospered in our environment operates, but also the possibility of creating an image archive that represents nature of a certain domestic aesthetic and which, in turn, proposes various types of architectural design and construction, evidencing the paradoxes of a culture of its own from an archeology illustrated in the framework of private space.

Uniform Title

Photographs. Selections

Alternative Title

• Photographs.
• Witness of the uprooting

Subjects

• Exhibition catalogs
• Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
• Coll, Marylee > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Four smaller size pages inserted between pages 12-13 (size 13x17cm).
• "Edición de 100 ejemplares, 85 numerados y firmados, de los cuales 25 van acompañados de una reproducción digital impresa por Irama Gómez = Edition of 100 copies, 85 copies signed and numbered" --Colophon.
• Catalog of the exhibition held from June 10 to the end of August, 2018 at the Beatriz Gil Galería in Caracas, Venezuela.
• Una (otra) metáfora de país / Ruth Auerbach.

Language (note)

• Text in Spanish and English in parallel columns.

Call Number

JQF 20-197

ISBN

• 9789801803553
• 980180355X

OCLC

1113963363

Author

Coll, Marylee, photographer.

Title

Testigos del desarraigo = : witness of the uprooting / Marylee Coll ; conceptualización y texto = concept and text : Ruth Auerbach.

Publisher

Caracas : Beatriz Gil Galería, 2018.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

Text in Spanish and English in parallel columns.

Local Note

Library has signed copy no. 54.

Added Author

Auerbach, Ruth, writer of added commentary.

Beatriz Gil Galería, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 20-197