UN FANTASMA QUE RECORRE EL MUNDO

A phantom traveling all around the world
Show by Oscar Santillan at DPM gallery
Guayaquil - Ecuador

LINKS:
Rio Revuelto (Curatorial text about the exhibition)
El Telegrafo (newspaper)
El Expreso (newspaper)

EXHIBITED WORKS:

Colored sperm
Photographic documentation of the result of 7 masturbations by the artist, after having vegetable pigments injected into his seminal vesicles
2009






One hundred years
Pinhole camera set up for a 100 years exposure
2009 - 2109


The lookout
Paint taken off from the gallery's wall, and a scale model created completely by the paint scrapings
2009


Memorial
'The New York Times' edition rendered blank by chemical process, and a miniature created from the extracted ink
Chemical counseling by PhD (c) Sean Bird
2008


The lost time
Clock set up in the Atlantis time zone
2009


Spider statement
Photography
90x60cm
2008


Anyway, I haven't lost my pants
Oil paint on canvas
2008 - 2009
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Statement - Contact info

The gap between the possible and the impossible, between reality and fiction, is the creative territory from where my practice departs.
The repertoire of strategies for exploring this terrain has, in recent years, grown to include means such as: deceiving looks (i.e. a blurred video image, not produced through digital manipulation, but through the action of breathing on the camera lens); complex processes producing simple results (i.e. a colorful photographic composition as evidence of the effects of pigments injected into my own seminal vesicles); and, elaborate visual narratives (i.e. the documentation of durational actions, edited into highly compressed videos or slide projections).
Then, these strategies interweave with topics, bearing a more intricate cartography. In fact, there are two very prominent topics in my recent works: masculinity, or more specifically, masculinity from the sensibility of romanticism, something between Thoreau and P.T. Barnum. The second issue is a more subtle one, which I am tempted to call “phenomenological ethics,” where a physical action in the world is, in itself, a political statement.
Within the map of my utopian desires, there is a device able to fill the gap between clocks and calendars, and a rebellion in which the crowd whispers their demands.

Contact: santillano@vcu.edu
Oscar Santillan is represented by dpm