I’m a Colombian photographer and designer. My work is focused in finding artistic pathways to melt traditional cultural roots with a global worldwide vision. Right now my goal is to experiment with mixtures between classical (analogous) and digital techniques of representation, capture and print of images; trying to find a personal way to express my vision and feelings about a lot of topics.
© Silvino González Morales
I’m looking for my place in a world over populated and full of communication media but also full of isolated persons in tiny places, meaningless works and lacking of big dreams beyond money or fame.
I try to reflect in my work my concerns about my role of a man and an artist in a process between traditions and preconceptions and more post-modern perceptions about myself, my sexuality, my place and my future.
Between traditions, rituals, history and a little dose of nihilism and a hedonistic search I try to find equilibrium. I’m a bipolar person, my work is a catharsis, and a declaration of pride about my condition; my art pieces try to talk about my country, our wars, our pain, our dreams, our cultural melting pot and our never ending search of happiness.
© Silvino González Morales
As part of my bachelor’s degree project, I’ve produced a set of talbotypes experimenting with papers and the classic photographic technique using the male body as a landscape, which is a metaphor of my own reflections about how gender roles and stereotypes are imposed on the surface of ourselves by society – but if you look closer all the differences simply disappear and what is left behind is skin as a tool for human contact. The other half of the project is a series of digital sabatiers sometimes melted with the scans of the talbotypes presented as an e-book and hopefully as a printed book.
Links:
Websites: http://www.yourmung.net & http://www.yourmung.net/bipolar
