Musuk Nolte
Bio
Born in Mexico, he moved to Peru at a very young age.
His work transits between documentary and artistic photography to address social issues. Throughout his career, he has worked with communities from Andean and Amazonian regions, integrating their cosmovisions in an atmospheric approach that puts into tension the representation of the individual with their own imaginary.
He holds a degree in Professional Photography and a specialization in Contemporary Photography. He has been awarded at World Press Photo and was finalist for the Discovery Award at Rencontres d'Arles. FONCA Fellow, he participated in residencies such as ON AIR – Krems and Lightworks New York. He has received grants from the Magnum Foundation, Elliott Erwitt HC7 Fellowship, Vital Impacts, and National Geographic Society.
He has presented 18 solo exhibitions and participated in biennals and museums including MALI, Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Fotoempauta, CCB, Photoquai Biennale, Singapore Photography Biennial, Daegu Photo Biennale, Les Rencontres d'Arles, XV Venice Architecture Biennale, Paris Photo, and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, among others.
He has published nine books, including "Las Pertenencias del Aire" and "El Idioma de los Huesos." He is founder and editor of KWY Ediciones, an independent publishing platform for visual narratives in Latin America.
Statement
“Musuk Nolte's image carries this metaphysical breath, not because it comes from a poetic project prefigured by the artist; in it one perceives rather the movement of the photographed other that permeates the production of the image, that endows it with a feeling and a mystical visibility. A mystique that is not aerial, but earthly, almost an effluvium of roots and water. A bio-anthropological effluvium. In The Camera Lucida Barthes spoke of the condition of the photographed subject becoming “subjectum”, in a peculiar sense: to be given birth by the camera; thus the subject would be formed, would emerge from a sort of visual nothingness on the photographic iconic surface (Barthes, 2009). Musuk's photograph shows another possibility: that in which the image is given birth to by the bio-cosmic condition of its subject. It is the otherness that emerges in it the one that gestated this other image, that mythical-real image that goes beyond the documentary and seeks a favorable condition to account for the enriched reality that constitutes the world that now opens us to consciousness”.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
