Alvaro Laiz

Visual artist
 
I WAS NEVER REALLY THERE
Location: Spain / Russia
Nationality: Spanish
Biography: Álvaro Laiz (b.1981) is a Spanish photographer and artist whose work deals with narratives where traditional culture, nature and industrial development converge. ____ "For Álvaro, the artistic practice and way of living resemble... MORE
Private Story
I WAS NEVER REALLY THERE
Copyright Alvaro Laiz 2024
Updated Apr 2022
Summary
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   Our memory works in an amazing way. It acts as a virtual theater. Most of my childhood memories appear as negative images, undeveloped, waiting to be processed. Some others lie projected in an intermediate place, halfway between the present and the past, between reality and imagination.

I remember my childhood and adolescence as a confusing scenario in which I felt permanently out of place. Books, comics, movies or video games were my passport out of a place where I didn't quite fit in. Thanks to them I was able to connect with unknown worlds. Wearing a helmet and wielding a book, I played to be a time traveler, proyecting myself into the future.

The items that accompany the intervened images you are about to watch are small treasures that have survived the passage of time and act as votive offerings through which I invoke the past and connect it with the present.

I was never really there proposes a mirroring game between my 3 years-old-self in 1984 and my work as a photographer in order to answer this question:

Who plays the leading role? That (child) who imagined the path or this (adult) who built it?


I Was Never Really There is a commission from Obscura for The World Today, the first and largest collection of native NFT photography 1/1
13,800 native 1/1 NFT photographs of cities, landscapes, communities, people, events and conceptual images that will tell our story for centuries to come, taken Mar-Apr 2022.An ode to the 1955 exhibition “The Family of Man” by legendary curator Edward Steichen for the MoMA, The World Today uses the blockchain to create a permanent record of our world, rich in metadata connections that further develop and cross-reference the stories within, resulting in a complex net of properties and rarities including 138 curated grails, 1 from each artist. The World Today 10K+ is a founding a new paradigm in the photography medium, expanding the frontier of possibilities for photography in the web3 era, and is responsible for onboarding dozens of world-class photographers to NFTs.
En realidad nunca estuve allí La memoria funciona de una forma sorprendente. Actúa como un teatro virtual. Muchos de mis recuerdos de infancia aparecen como imágenes en negativo, pendientes de revelar,esperando a ser procesadas. Otras se encuentran proyectadas en un lugar intermedio, a medio camino entre el presente y el pasado, entre lo real y lo virtual.
Recuerdo la infancia y adolescencia como un escenario confuso en el que me sentía permanentemente fuera de lugar. Libros, cómics, películas o videojuegos fueron mi pasaporte de salida de un lugar en el que no terminaba de encajar. Gracias a ellos pude conectar con mundos desconocidos. Armado con poco más que un casco y un libro jugaba a proyectarme en el espacio y el tiempo.

Los items que acompañan a las imágenes intervenidas son pequeños tesoros que han sobrevivido al paso del tiempo y actúan como exvotos a través de los que invocar el pasado y conectarlo con el presente.

En realidad yo nunca estuve allí plantea un juego de espejos entre mi yo de 1984 y mi trabajo como fotógrafo con el que trato de buscar solución a la pregunta:

¿Quién es el protagonista en esta obra de teatro? ¿Aquel (niño) que imaginó el camino o el (adulto) que lo hizo posible?
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