In “Detailed close-ups of far-off scenes” I investigate and confront constructed realities, myths and believes, the blur between truth and fiction and faith, and what appears to be an evidence of a truth.
I do this by documenting what I consider archetypical situations of forgeries, hoaxes or simple fabrications of lies and truths with the sole intention of deceiving, as well as cases in which the only thing at stake is perception and belief.
The documentation jumps from particular to particular, in a sort of disorienting entropy in which you can’t completely find or understand any discernible formula in how these situations are organized and information being distributed – they range from government to science to art to history to military to architecture to food.
Every “entry” is accompanied by a text that describes the facts being documented, since it’s hardly possible for an image or object alone to tell the story behind...it.
This is an on-going project, far from being finished, and therefore this exhibition will show a small selection of the work I developed so far. It will talk about fake Veermers elevated to the status of miracle, of how printers and copy machines spy on us by marking the documents we print without our consent, of how an archaeological finding deeply affected the understanding of human evolution for decades, of how to treat phantom pains from amputated limbs, of how to photograph dead people as if they looked alive, of the difference between synthetized and natural diamonds and how they are the same thing, and of how placebo pills might go wrong and kill a patient.
Carlos Azeredo Mesquita
Entrada actualizada el el 06 jun de 2016
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