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JOS\u00c9 MAR\u00cdA<\/div>\n
Pablo Chaco, Colombia<\/div>\n

\u201cI bear the light so that others won\u2019t stumble,\u201d says Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda, a man who has been blind for sixty-eight years. We became friends four years ago when, one afternoon, he allowed me to take his picture. We ended up talking about everything from prophets to the poetry of Jorge Luis Borges, from his dreams to the complexities of living in a world where sighted people are privileged. His blindness is the main subject of this project, which explores the fantasies of a man who does not follow the pace of contemporary life, who stubbornly remains disengaged and wants to feel excluded, willfully playing with clich\u00e9s of disability. And yet this man continually escapes the confinement that society threatens him with, transforming blindness into a gift that he uses to explore the world and to serve as a guide on a voyage where photography is the tool that shines a light on him, allowing him to step out of the dark.<\/p>\n

Pablo Chaco<\/p>\n

PABLO CHACO<\/div>\n
(b. 1982) Cali, Colombia\/ Berlin, Germany<\/div>\n

Interested in exploring the possibilities offered by landscape, Pablo Chaco intervenes in both urban and rural settings to give them new meaning, while exploring their transformation and the interactions between space and photography, between natural and artificial light. Chaco was selected to participate in the Festival Internacional de la Imagen in 2015 and the 2nd edition of the Bienal de Muralismo y Arte P\u00fablico in 2014.<\/p>\n

Distorted Portraits<\/i> was the image selected by Saatchi Art to form part of its collection The Face of Portraiture. Chaco\u2019s work has been included in the online projects Espacio Gaf, Luz del Norte, and Bex Magazine<\/i>. He is a founding member of the collective L\u00f3bulo Frontal, a Colombian initiative created in 2015, which seeks to analyze the deconstruction of the body\/object in everyday spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-proyecto-en.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}