Facundo Bustamante
Bio
Facundo Bustamante (Buenos Aires, 1982).
After studying Image and Sound Design at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the University of Buenos Aires - FADU-UBA, Facundo worked for over 24 years in the creative industries, including theatre, television, film, photography and visual arts. In 2014 he settled in London, UK, where he collaborates in different photographic projects. He focuses primarily on the editorial field, standing out as a photographer and director of gastronomic, Lifestyle, Still Life and interiors projects. Simultaneously, he becomes interested in artistic photography, developing personal projects. In this line of work, he has exhibited in the group show APUK#1, at the John Harriman Gallery of the British Cultural Center in Lima. Likewise, his work has been included in the exhibition 'Proyectos Nro 4' at Carlos Caamaño Foto Galería (Lima). He co-directed the video-performance 'This Is (From) America' by visual artist JC Candanedo which was exhibited at the DOCUMENT NOW exhibition at Bermondsey Project Space
(London). He is a member of Four Corners (London), a renowned centre for photography and film, offering dynamic training for audiovisual creators.
He is currently working on his series ' Hyperbole' which will be soon exhibited in the cities of Lima and Buenos Aires.
Statement
In this work-in-progress project entitled 'Hyperbole', Facundo's approach is to capture those incidents of light and form in a short period of time, but long enough to be ‘brushed’ into the frame, generated by traditional photographic techniques, without the aid of post-production effects. With a considerable degree of uncertainty as to the results, his aim is to embrace and seek out the underestimated imperfection as a kind of response to an increasingly perfectionist world; where technology and digital tools play an important role in reinforcing and spreading the idea of automatic, effortless, instant, stylish, superficial and flawless representations so often seen on social media and strongly reflected in ordinary behaviours in our current society.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
