José Antonio | Photography
Montag entumecido
In “Montag entumecido” the artist settles his own conception of time.
The work in its entirety, consummates through the numerical coincidence of the car's odometer. The cell phone camera, immediate and slave, is the medium of choice to record reflections on the closed and overwhelming environment of a drive where time stands still; only perceptible when transformed into progressive numbers epitomizing a journey that leads nowhere.
During the creation of this project, incidentally, in one of these drives, a voice on the radio starts to read a fragment of Fahrenheit 451 describing the main character in the subway. The moment allows the artist to record, with the same cell phone camera, a video that embraces the core numerical-temporal scheme of that specific passage.
This multidisciplinary photographic composition makes us accomplice of Martinez' insights and seeks to provoke in the spectator the thrill of futility of a car trip, any day, in Mexico City.
Patricia Conde Juaristi
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