Nostalgia de Catástrofes

Patricia Conde Galería presents Oswaldo Ruiz’s: Nostalgia de catástrofes (Nostalgia for Catastrophes), exhibition whose title quotes a sentence from the novel Los recuerdos del porvenir, by Mexican author Elena Garro.
Ruiz applies fiction as a narrative strategy and alludes to the two essential substances of Garro's story: memory and time, proposing new representations of space in Mexico, substituting the concept of landscape for territory and place, and even for non-place, with photographs in which there is an underlying violence, a dormant catastrophe.
Curated by Juan Antonio Molina, the photographs that present varying techniques, ranging from gelatin/silver to digital prints and videothe exhibition invite the viewer to think Dystopia in a double sense, both social and historical: As a failure of utopia, distortion, and almost a reversal of the meaning of history on the one hand, and as an irony of going in one direction and ending in another, in an opposite one.