Rodrigo Illescas
Bio
BIO Rodrigo Illescas:
Rodrigo Illescas was born in Bahía Blanca, Province of Buenos Aires, in 1983. He is an architect and professional photographer. He publishes poetry books, “Asimismo, todo eso”, declared of Cultural Interest by the Secretariat of Culture of the Nation; “Razia”, first prize Latin American Meeting of Voices. He is currently a professor at the University of Buenos Aires FADU-UBA. He gives seminars at the National University of Villa María, Córdoba.
Among his awards are the Global GFX FujiFilm Award; 1st prize Felix Schoeller Photo Award; Finalist Leica, Oskar Barnack; Grand Prix, PhotoDays Festival, Rovinj, Croatia; 1st Prize, Portraits, PoyLatam, Mexico; 1st prize, Best Portfolio, Transversalidades, Portugal; Honorable Mention, Provincial Salon of Visual Arts Florencia Molina Campos.
Throughout his career he has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, Italy; Somer- set House, London; Museum of Cultural History in Osnabrück, Germany; CCK, Argentina; Fotogalería Teatro San Martín, Argentina; Pettoruti Museum of Fine Arts, La Plata, Argentina; among others. His work is part of the collection of the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb; National University of Villa María, Córdoba; Private Collections in London, Buenos Aires, Madrid and Andorra.
Statement
They are there. Immersed in a motionless time as part of a sleeping city.
In those corners, the gods have no halo, the angels have no wings and the ghosts have no shadow.
The bodies that emerge from the light, silence the story. They remain silent, immersed in their absence.
In each of their nights there is a kingdom. There is talk of stones of light, of endless roads, of miraculous bridges and even of intact cathedrals.
However, there is only a glow from which they are born, and a night that covers them.
They risk themselves in the last light. They wait in silence. In silence they wash away something more than guilt.
They do not look at those who see them. Their backs grow against oblivion and become monuments at the beginning of the night. The most humble bodies evoke an incomplete past.
The glow immobilizes them. A memory absorbs them. They stop before an empty dream. They are their own absence in that terrifying solitude.
Yet they are there, building towers without witnesses. Whispering their own nostalgia, fear and emptiness, while offering their hearts to silence.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
