Exposición Fotográfica – Contrastes Itinerantes

“Viajar es marcharse de casa, es vestirse de loco, diciendo todo y nada en una postal. Es dormir en otra cama, sentir que el tiempo es corto, viajar es regresar…”

Gabriel-García-Márquez

La vida es un viaje, es la búsqueda de uno mismo. En ella nos integramos y adaptamos al medio, otras veces lo transformamos a nuestras necesidades. En esta obra se muestra el contraste de parajes intervenidos totalmente por el hombre o vírgenes, pasando por una transición en la que arquitectura y naturaleza se fusionan, se reconquistan. Este proyecto lo comencé hace 3 años y lo he desarrollado en blanco y negro en tres continentes.

‍

Sarah Vallance

Welcome to “Contrastes Itinerantes”, a wonderful exhibition which celebrates three years’ travel across three continents. Alejandra Lopez-Zaballa has visited Burma, Sri Lanka, Australia, Japan, America, Cuba and Mexico using her camera to capture a mixture of the natural environment and the man-made. These wonderful black and white photographs depict different ends of the same spectrum: the virgin world of a bamboo forest and the masculinity of the central train station in Kyoto.

‍

Unicos – Kyoto Bamboo Forest – Measures 0.80×1.2om
Unicos – Kyoto Bamboo Forest – Measures 0.80×1.2om

‍

Conectados – Kyoto Central Train Station – Measures 0.80×1.20m
Conectados – Kyoto Central Train Station – Measures 0.80×1.20m

There is a haunting quality that lingers with each of these photographs, whether through the total absence of humanity or the carefully wrought man-made structures of some of the world’s most notable architects, like the dome of the cylindrical Solomon Guggenheim museum in New York City, or the sails of the Sydney Opera House. In certain of these photos, nature and the built environment are fused. Ta Prohn, the twelfth century temple in Siem Reap has been overwhelmed by nature, strangled by the roots of a spung tree. A rickety, wooden jetty juts out across the waters of Mandalay, clouds loom ominously beyond the Brooklyn Bridge.

‍

Abrázame – Sydney Opera House – Measures 0.60×0.90m
Abrázame – Sydney Opera House – Measures 0.60×0.90m

‍

Solomon R. – Guggenheim NYC – Measures 0.60×0.90m
Solomon R. – Guggenheim NYC – Measures 0.60×0.90m

‍

Conquista – Ta Phron, Siem Reap – Measures 0.61mx0.61m
Conquista – Ta Phron, Siem Reap – Measures 0.61mx0.61m

‍

Al otro lado – Mandalay, Myanmar – Measures 0.60×0.90m
Al otro lado – Mandalay, Myanmar – Measures 0.60×0.90m

‍

1870 – Brooklyn Bridge, NYC – Measures 0.61×0.61m
1870 – Brooklyn Bridge, NYC – Measures 0.61×0.61m

Each of these photos makes exquisite use of light, reflection and fog. The photographs of Bagan, the ancient Burmese city in Mandalay, and Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka show the landscape masked by mist creating an ethereal, dream-like quality. This collection brings together the works of an exceptional photographer who is curious and sensitive to everything around her.

‍

Infinito I – Bagan, Myanmar – Measures 0.50×0.90m
Infinito I – Bagan, Myanmar – Measures 0.50×0.90m

‍

6:30am – Adam’s Peak, Sri Lanka – Measures 0.60×0.90m
6:30am – Adam’s Peak, Sri Lanka – Measures 0.60×0.90m

‍

Infinito II – Bagan, Myanmar – Measures 0.60×0.90m
Infinito II – Bagan, Myanmar – Measures 0.60×0.90m

‍

Alba – Mandalay, Myanmar – Measures 0.60×0.90m
Alba – Mandalay, Myanmar – Measures 0.60×0.90m

‍

Cálido – Sri Lanka – Measures 0.60×0.90m
Cálido – Sri Lanka – Measures 0.60×0.90m

‍

Descanso – Sri Lanka – Measures 0.60×0.90m
Descanso – Sri Lanka – Measures 0.60×0.90m

‍

Misterio – Myanmar – Measures 0.60×0.90m
Misterio – Myanmar – Measures 0.60×0.90m

I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.