WEAR

Sebastian Gonzalez

Wear and tear is the phenomenon I have studied most. It is a constant process of multiple manifestations, material and immaterial, overt and covert, that affects everything that lives, but also what we create and believe to be indestructible. It is a movement that never stops, eroding the rock, yellowing the leaf, disappearing the pencil, rotting the body. At the intersection of art and science, wear and tear allows me to materially affect the work, to wear away the fibres of the photographic paper, to undo the metaphor and materialise the question. It is present not only as a subject, but also as a plastic technique and as a human process in my own existence. Photography, in its attempt to freeze a point of movement, seems to challenge the time in which wear and tear takes place. Perhaps it is able to give us the illusion of stopping an unstoppable process, but the work, which loses sharpness or fades with time, is evidence of the research I propose.

Sebastián González