Presentation of audiovisual series on photographic books
- Machine room. Dardignac 111, Bellavista.
- Thursday, March 21 – 7:30 p.m.
Different generations, techniques, themes and perspectives are part of the catalog of Haikén editions, a Chilean publishing house specialized in photography that, in its three years of existence, has published five volumes.
As a way to deepen the reflection on this discipline and the perspectives of the authors who have published – and thanks to the National Fund for Cultural Development and the Arts (Fondart) – its editors have developed an audiovisual series about these books that It will be presented this Thursday, March 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Machine Room (Dardignac 111, Recoleta), an event completely open and free to the public.
These are “Plebiscite in Chile, 1988”, by Álvaro Hoppe Guiñez; “Tiempo de Vals” by Carla Yovane; “Golpes”, by Alexis Díaz Belmar; and “Blenden. Shielding, architecture and capital”, by Rodolfo Muñoz.
As the editor of Haikén, Alexis Díaz Belmar, points out, working on photography, then the photographic book, and now this audiovisual medium, “represents a space for the dissemination of works in a medium in keeping with the times and new technologies. “It makes it possible to amplify the impact of the content.”
For this reason, the photographer also invites you to this meeting to present the videos, which will be available on the publisher’s social networks and on its YouTube channel. “These publications have been works that have also had an exhibition dimension in museums and galleries. We invite everyone to review our site www.haikenediciones.com and follow us on our social networks,” he says.
About the works
Blend. Shielding, architecture and capital by Rodolfo Muñoz consists of the observation and recording of the architectural behavior presented by various institutions linked to capital during the social outbreak in October 2019.
Tiempo de Vals by Carla Yovane is the result of a documentary project about sex workers in the Plaza de Armas in Santiago, which began in 2018 by talking to female sex workers in the same square with whom the photographer had already established a relationship. From there began the first ties on the benches in the square, which became complicities and tours of motels near kilometer zero with Víctor, Héctor, Claudio, Andrés, Pato, Gerson, Eduardo, Gonzalo and Alex.
Golpes by Alexis Díaz Belmar contains 28 photographs of the marks of the shots fired during the 1973 coup d’état that are still visible in the buildings near the La Moneda palace, almost 50 years after the event.
Plebiscite in Chile, 1988 by Álvaro Hoppe, brings together more than sixty photographs taken between 1983 and 1990. It is a publication that addresses the plebiscite held in 1988, which ended the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile.