3 x URUGUAY

Matilde Campodonico, photographer
Carlos Costa, photographer
Daniel Machado, photographer

12.11.2005 – 10.12.2005

In the exhibition 3 X URUGUAY we are confronted with the reality of present day Uruguay from three different perspectives. 

A recurring subject matter in the work of these photographers is the slow decay of a once prosperous and ambitious society and the memories, hopes, desires and fears of its inhabitants. Each photographer treats these themes from another vantage point.

Carlos Costa portrays the crisis year 2002 by showing us the effects it has had on the urban landscape.  The economic downfall of Uruguay is not illuminated by showing cliché images of poverty and misery. Instead Costa shows us the silent and everyday signs of a failing economy.

THE RODELU FAMILY by Daniel Machado revolves around the home of a once prominent middleclass family in Montevideo. The interiors of this house illustrate the detrimental effect time can have on a family. The exhaustion, decay and loneliness that can exist in a house that is filled with the memories of better days. The name RODELU stands for Republica Oriental DEL Uruguay obviously linking the fate of this fictional family with the fate of Uruguay itself.

GROUNDWATER by Matilde Campodonico is of a more conceptual nature. In her photographs the individual is central. Foremost the ability of human beings to adapt to changing circumstances. In dreamlike images we see individuals merging with the water that surrounds them. The difference between the reflections in the mirror-like water and the models themselves blurs until we cannot differentiate one from the other.

Works in this exhibition have already been exhibited by Uruguay Posible at ABC Treehouse Gallery and the Cervantes Institute in Utrecht, The  Netherlands.

Matilde Campodonico:
http://www.matildecampodonico.com/