Backroom Caracas

Le temo a las bacterias. La crisis humanitaria en ciernes ha perfeccionado el miedo infantil de mi adultez. Las bacterias son el terreno antagónico donde tomo conciencia de que los otros son una amenaza legendaria y donde mi propio cuerpo opera a través de razones sibilinas que no siempre discurren a mi favor.

El Helicoide, May 18, 2016. Luis Theis has been imprisoned inside the beast of concrete and rebars that sits on top of Roca Tarpeya, hoping to awaken from a modernity that never came. Torture, rapes, and disappearances sleep together in a place where drugs and prostitution have been guests already. This time, the monster temporarily houses, like a terrifying hotel, the detainees from the march held in Caracas in support of the recall referendum convened by the opposing Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD), which after a strong intervention from the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) and the appearance of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN), resulted in 44 detainees nationwide (14 of them in Caracas).

There are people who are bridges: they are simply an undersea cable that irreversibly connects two geographies at the same time. Mauricio Ceppi is a visual browser that connects Caracas and New York, synchronizes your beats, harmonies consolidates, and manages to reconcile the two cities at the same bpm.   Mauricio was born in 1973 | ... |

Correspondencia entre la fotografía de Luigi Ghirri y la cinematografía de los films de Gus Van Sant. Nota bene: La dirección de fotografía (cinematografía) de las películas: Gerry, Last Days, Elephant fueron realizadas por Harris Savides (1957-2012). La dirección de fotografía de My Own Private Idaho fue realizada por John Campell y Eric Alan Edwards. | ... |

Correspondencia entre las obras de Johan Rosenmunthe, Ícaro Lira, Elena Damiani, Gabriel Orozco, Jordan Tate, Katharina Grosse, Rachel de Joode, Juan Pablo Garza, Ángela Bonadies y Mitchell Syrop.

A look at Viviane Sassen’s book Pikin Slee, published by Prestel Publishing in 2014.                          

José Joaquín Figueroa (Caracas, 1986) es un artista interdisciplinario egresado de la Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture (2009), con una licenciatura en Arte de la Cooper Union (2014) y un máster en Artes de la Universidad de California en Berkeley (2016).

Un vistazo al cuaderno de bocetos de Eduardo Molea, vacilador gráfico y actual pasante de BACKROOMCaracas. . Abrir un sketch guardado te regresa a una época, revives el proceso creativo de esos años, son las formas y apuntes de un tiempo y perderlo pueda ser un triste accidente. Hoy escaneamos uno que no quisiéramos que se perdiera: el registro del 2012 de Eduardo Molea.

The Heart Is Not a Metaphor is a body art exhibition that took over 13 galleries at the MoMA and included a retrospective of Gober's 40-year career. Of course, it was entirely forbidden to take photos in that room. It is also important to admit that certain things are impossible to narrate.

“Reconstructing an essence” from the web into print.     Today it is practically impossible to die completely. Our online life is a perpetual present, beyond our own disappearance. In this context, a new ritual has been set up to remember the deceased, especially if they were young: look at their Facebook profile, their last | ... |