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Shadows. 2005
Video
The absence of the individual in the landscape characterizes part of Sergio Belinchón's photographic work: places, cities, landscapes that have been built and inhabited by men whose very absence emphasizes the silence, the futility, a certain impossibility. In his video "Sombras" [Shadows], the only thing appearing is the shadow, it is the only thing we see, and the only thing we hear is a confused racket of voices, impossible to decode: crossed conversations, unconnected sentences... just noise.
The shadow is the sole protagonist of this video: in inverse shapes, against the ground, imperfect in its elongated forms, retreating in the light, distorted in the nooks and crannies of the surfaces. Connected to the bodies that cast them by the feet, that link in perpetual motion, impossible to separate, shadows could be detached, however, in classic literature, at the feet level using a green stone knife under the shade of certain tree. Those shadows represent the modern individual, always in motion, always anonymous, in crossings of intermediate spaces, where no one has a name, no one has identity. Bodies and shadows have never been so alike, never been so leveled. Perhaps shadows have already freed themselves from the heavy load of their human bodies and they are the ones that fill the building hallways and the streets in modern cities.
(Translation: Marina Torres)
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