| Mexican artist Fernando Montiel Klint’s “Tiempo Modernos” (Modern Times) series shows contemporary people struggling through tense interactions The images evoke a range of emotions laced with dark humor, capturing the balance between life and death by a mood that hangs heavy in the air. View more of Klint's work, and an article written by Trisha Ziff, in the pages of INSIGHT. |
Donde Estas Mama, (2005).
Cuernavaca, (2006).
Oaxtepec, (2006).
Ultrapasteurizada, (2005).
Nirvana, (2006).
| Klint’s images are theatrical constructs. To watch them in their creation is to watch the photographer dance with light, engage in disguise, allow himself to be seen as he literally moves into the space of the scene, invoking the power of the cinematic still. The images are theatrical and bizarre, fictional performances, staged for the camera, constructed in the computer. They are narratives reduced to one salient frame, but a scene that nonetheless never took place. These images claim that the real can only be captured in its essence by the simulation. The idea is the authentic and the image is the fiction. – Trisha Ziff |
