Between borders, 2009 notable worry about that phenomenon, the document evidences additional stages that may escape us if we only tend to the eminently anecdotic of his work. The photographs of Alejandro Cartagena focus in the registry of discontinuity from evidencing lost spaces of superposition mechanisms. What matters in Cartagena’ s landscape / documentary work is what is not there: the missing element. The absence becomes a formal finding, but also violent expressions. The discontinuity generates a subtext towards the anti-functional, that of which only traces remain and that, at the same time, makes us see what really is in the landscape. The city’ s growth evidences what’ s missing, the uninhabitable space: the lost.
In another of his series titled Urban Holes, Cartagena registers pieces of land without construction that escape the streets continuum
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