DESCRIPTION
Elsewhere is an ongoing project exploring ideas such as displacement, the landscape as a coping strategy and nature as transcendental space.
Challenging the restless feeling of not belonging, otherness and the cultural constrains, the landscape has offered me a cathartic relief, shaping a renewed sense of connectedness with nature.
Making both real and imaginary landscapes, I dissolve space and time, creating an interruption, an absence, giving a feeling of been elsewhere. Reality is suspended, reminding us we are just a small part of nature, united with it.
There is an invitation, seeking us to ponder and reflect, to create a moment of emptiness, a spark of consciousness. In all the nuances of simplicity nature reveals the divine, helping us to understand the world through an act of solitude. Photography becomes an instrument through which I can reveal not only the nature that encloses me, but the nature that reflects the landscape within.
A silence arises reproducing a calm and precious universe, suspended in time, next to the world itself. A transcendental space evoking an allegory of a place called home.
AUTHOR
Francisco Gonzalez Camacho (b. 1990) is a Spanish visual artist based in Helsinki. He is currently studying a Masters' degree in Photography at Aalto University. His practice can be denominated as contemporary photography with focus on themes such as family, immigration and the landscape.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Rotterdam Photo Festival, Netherlands (Upcoming).
Group Exhibitions
2023 MoA exhibition, Finnish Museum of Photography, Finland (Upcoming).
2022 “Darkness” group show, FLOOR_, Seoul, South Korea.
2022 Salong CFF 2022, Vulkano, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2022 BOOKED 22, MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, Cable Factory, Finland.
2022 Emerging Vision: Biennial Student Show, Colorado Photographic Art Center (CPAC), Denver, USA.
2022 International Juried Exhibition (IJE) at the Center for Photographic Art (CPA), California, USA.
2022 Fringe Arts Barth, Bath Open Art Prize, at 44AD Artspace, Bath, UK.
2022 AAVA 2022, Art in Porkkala, Porkkalanniemi, Finland.
2022 The Auxiliary Project Space. Middlesbrough, UK.
Publications
2022 Elsewhere, Self-publish Photobook, edition of 100.
2022 Handbali Magazine Volume 4.
Press
2022 Fish Eye Magazine
2022 ArtDoc Photograhy Magazine
Awards
2022 Art and Media Grant, Aalto University
2022 Booooooom Photo Book Award
