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10 October - 16 November 2007

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Amparo Garrido

 

 

 

Photo Nº 4. 2000
Series: Ventanas, Papeles y el Hombre del Saco
(Windows, Papers, and the Bogeyman)

In this series, "Ventanas, papeles y el hombre del saco" (Windows, Papers, and the Bogeyman), 2000, several subjects that converge in the individual are suggested. On the one hand, our everyday environment, those rooms in which we live, that here are defined by the painted wallpapers that decorate them. On the other hand, the idea of watching and being watched, synthesized by the open window, as a peep-hole through which we observe our environment but from which we are also inevitably observed. Windows are sometimes like Russian nesting dolls, as one opens up to another until there is a television screen, the supreme window, the ultimate window of our times. And finally the fears, the ordinary fear of the unknown, but symbolized by that childhood fear of the bogeyman, a faceless shadow that haunts us and all of a sudden can pounce on us and put us into his bag to never let us out.

Fear, that shadow we see next to us but it's not our own, a shadow without a body, the idea of evil, of impending but undefined danger. That shadow that slides over the walls of Amparo Garrido's room speaks of fear and impending danger, fed by the deepest dreams that inhabit our solitude.

(Translation: Marina Torres)

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