ALTAR DESERT
"... breathtaking land and air ...
land with a white glow skeleton
stripped by the birds ... "
-JL Borges
From time to time change the landscape of sand. One does not account very well. Just dig into the white line on the road to turn and see that the dunes are swollen or have more horizontal in less than five minutes. And there, in the distance that emerges as the novels of William Munro and Cormac McCarthy, you may get a gust of wind and sand finsísima the light thinning and alters the rate of respiration. Is the Altar Desert. Suddenly
Javier Ramírez Limón camera captures something, a situation. "I do not understand anything, but what was strange, to say the least. I felt that in spite of me had to unravel the mystery of the pick up. " This presents the photographer
Sonora (Hermosillo, 1960) the sequence of six photographs taken somewhere in the desert of Altar, between Puerto Peñasco, Sonoita and San Luis Rio Colorado. That is the triangle of the dunes and the saguaros. A strange white van
visited by men on horseback who is a colt, under a subsidiary of one of the mares. The group of riders around to pick up and picking up or something. Then, a boy runs through the dust and who drives back to the stealthy camera. Something happens. In the last image comes from nothing other camionta and stops. Quiet, some men drink beer cap.
"I knew if qie we separated some time disappear forever. And I would have to gather each of your parts, like a puzzle, "Ramírez Limón writes in the catalog of the exhibition hanging in the House of Image: Plaza de la Ciudadela 2, Centro Histórico in Mexico City, until 29 January.
The "hills" as they say to the children as well as the dunes are not as soft. The tires of the truck and the legs of horses seem buried. Are on solid ground.
To me there, by the placement of the six photos in sequence, is hiding a murder mystery. Something is transported. Something is collected. But for other viewers about boys a ride horses rented. And not in the heart of the desert, near the hill of Pinacate, but on the outskirts of a population. Have lying around.
However, what photography is a weapon invented in different ways in the mind of every observer. The eye of the photographer himself deluded suspicion and incorporates the disclosure (discovery) in the darkroom lab, under circumstances of light and the letters impossible not to relate to this sensational story by Julio Cortazar, "Blow the devil" , which reworked narrative procedure Antonioni in Blow Up.
"I figured that the white pickup had all your pieces and that someone would so far I could not find them. I had to shoot the camera to catch you forever. And now I guess I'll be there waiting for me ... ", adding slides Ramírez Limón data which the invention originated in the photograph does not need. Each of the photos suggests a hidden story, but placing the order, the progression of all images-in the natural order of numbers-is intriguing to the receiver.
Like memory, the picture does not play, invent and serves as the imagination.
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