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现居荷兰的西班牙摄影师Francisco Reina用摄影和数字技术进行隐喻的创作，以此表达他对社会，政治，文化问题批判主义观点。任何真实信息都存在有效的信息交换，而说真话并不容易，于是谎言登场屏蔽有效信息。每个社会的政治力量和商业力量都在协同操作，把人们变成选民或者消费者，并提供足够灵活自由的机制确保这一切得以发生，其中谎言是最为有效的操作方式。但若信任关系不在，社会也就分崩离析，虽然很多展示的景象都与现实无关，但是谎言依旧运作，并成功的制造出“民主与自由”。奥地利心理学家Paul Watzlawick讲过：“所有幻想中最危险的便是认为真实只有一个。”
ALTERED STATES
A minimum amount of truth is necessary to justify the communication of any kind of information. To tell the truth is often very difficult and even when a lie is told by omission of certain information can result in an accusation of being guilty of hiding the truth. Additionally, manipulation can be defined as the act of representing something false as real, a negative as positive, a degradation as beneficial. In every society there is a general need to achieve both economic and political power and when these two forces come together to rule the State, manipulation is implemented to turn people into subjects, potential voters or consumers. Some of the political and commercial strategies are very familiar with this strategy of manipulation and are constantly focused on supplying society with enough sensuality to keep the citizens´ animal sensitivity alive. The most well known form of manipulation is lie.
Current society would not exist if people did not have reciprocal trust. Manipulated language can be received with confidence and good faith and eventually people may be guided not by the truth, but by the manipulator´s intentions. Therefore, each of these manipulations is a lie servicing the social realm. The picture of the world that is constantly being shown to us has nothing to do with reality because the truth about every single event is buried under a mountain of lies. This system has reached extraordinary success at creating a dissuasion from the menace of democracy and what is really interesting is that this has been achieved under the banner of “freedom”. “From all illusions the most dangerous one consists in thinking that there is only one reality” Paul Watzlawick.
FRANCISCO REINA (Short Bio)
Francisco Reina (Sevilla 1979, Spain) is a spanish photographer settled in The Hague, The Netherlands. He is represented as an artist by AJG Gallery in Sevilla, Spain. He has recently been selected for the book NEW Dutch Photography Talent 2012. As an artist he has exhibited his work in many places such as Cokkie Snoei Gallery (Rotterdam), Foley Gallery (New York), Roberto Mata Photography Academy (Venezuela), Circulo de Bellas Artes (Madrid) and The Photography Festival “Promenades Photographique” (France) between others.
He has also been awarded 1st prize of Digital Art at the “35th Bancaja Awards”, Honorific Mention at the X Art Award “ABC” and nominated for the Lex van Rosen Award
(Noorderlicht Gallery in Groningen 2011) between others.
His work has also been featured in magazines such as GUP, CaCao Mag and ESQUIRE (Russia).
ARTIST STATEMENT
My artwork takes a critical view of social, political and cultural issues, often referencing what surrounds me or draws my attention. The medium I use is photography and I develop my projects using digital techniques. My projects reflect a concern with the progressive construction of social reality by the media, discernible not only in the increasing importance of the image, but also in the gradual incorporation of the “simulated world” into different realms of daily life, such as politics and culture. The critical realism of my work is generated from these reflections and I achieve it by transforming them into metaphors.
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