Natura, Mexico, 2005-2008 by Omar Gamez (December 11, 2009) 
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General Statement by Juan Antonio Molina Cuesta
This week I will show you seven artists, who are emerging in the Mexican photography scene. This is a cross cultural context in which the traditional borders of national identity are constantly transgressed. A static or homogeneous definition of this socio-cultural space is difficult due to the diversity of the subject matter of these photographers. Oscar Fernando Gómez’s photos are linked to his own experience as a taxi driver. For him taking photos is a part of the everyday life and it is something almost peripheral to the conventional art languages. Andrés Carretero, Omar Gámez and Alinka Echeverría research their subject and produce documentary work focused on uncommon subjects and environments, similar to what an anthropologist or social scientist would do, but making the most of their own aesthetically sofisticated visions. Complex space and time narratives are constructed by Oswaldo Ruiz, Mauricio Alejo and José Carlos Jurado, for whom the finest formal structure is a key to suggest their conceptual and philosophical concerns. This variety of aesthetic proposals match the wide range of nuances which make up the contradictory contemporary visual culture in Mexico and abroad. Juan Antonio Molina Cuesta is curator at Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City. [popup url="http://www.theblacksnapper.net/news"]Click this link to get the latest international photography news and related articles (popup)[/popup]
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"The garden is the smallest parcel of the world and then it is the totality of the world" (Michel Foucault, 1967). Four years ago I started photographing this group of nudist men that meet several times each year at Cuernavaca City, located at the south of Mexico City.
As an escape from the stress of living in Mexico City these men have made of the house, mostly in the garden area, a temporary weekend oasis destined to contemplation, recreation and purification of their bodies.
Through these images, the garden is seen as a microcosmos of perfection, which allows them to enjoy the very best of the four elements: sun, water, earth and air. They stop City time to have a return to a natural state into this limited freedom. They have created a weekend colony where everyone can be himself, worriless into the comfort of a private place.
The Natura series is created in a hybrid photographic style that travels from documentary to fiction, between spontaneity and staging. They depict a liberated way of life of men on earth in a specific context.
Omar Gamez (1975) lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico.
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