#TelónDeFondo (#Backdrop) was a mounting curated by Florencia Alvarado for Backroom Caracas in collaboration with the Cisneros Foundation in the context of its 2015 Seminar After Landscape: Perspectives and Traces of the Traveler. The exhibition was on view from October 16th to 20th in Caracas.
#TelónDeFondo refers to the backdrops created in photographic studies in the 19th century to play with the desire to be in an impossible place, to travel without displacement or to create the fiction of a landscape.
The mounting encompasses works by Nayarí Castillo, Amada Granado, Flavio Herrera, Ricardo Huezo, Nancy La Rosa, Marco Montiel-Soto, Romy Pocztaruk, and Gerardo Rojas, retaking the tradition of these backings in the light of current concerns and techniques, in order to incite immediate interaction with the viewer, activating social networks dynamics when snapping portraits before them.
The project pursued the reinterpretation of a device whose primary condition is artifice. However, in following the searches of these contemporary artists, the result is a series of images that—even in the back—impose the paradox of mobility through vital and transient places.
Below are some photos of the experience:
