Cristina Velásquez

The New World originates from my interest in photography as a way to push documentary conventions into the realm of pictorial depiction. I reinterpret reality using elements of fiction and artifice to animate underlying power structures. I like to borrow literary structures from Latin American fragmentation and storytelling, while at the same time, questioning the very nature of narration. Who narrates? Who interprets? What is, and what is not part of the narrative? I am interested in acknowledging the subjectivities that permeate the act of representing —oneself, and the other— starting with the power imbalance inherent to the medium of photography that amplifies a larger social system of subtraction and editorializing. These photographs are collaborative stagings of bodies in landscapes that engage the viewer in a game of questioning, revision and revelation.