Ignacio Evangelista

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Natural Selection
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Location: Madrid
Nationality: Spanish
Biography: Born in Valencia (Spain). Lives and works in Madrid (Spain). Bachelor Degree in Psychology. Website: www.ignacioevangelista.com My photographic series show the relationship, sometimes contradictory, between the natural and the artificial, between... MORE
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Natural Selection
Copyright Ignacio Evangelista 2024
Updated Mar 2014
Topics Animals, Architecture, Documentary, Editorial, Environmental, Landscape, Natural Selection, Photography, Wildlife, Zoo, animals, nature, artificial
The Natural Selection series depicts modern zoological parks from different European cities where animals are put into spaces which mimic their original habitats.The staging of these places seems to somehow reflect the preconceived notion of what human beings believe, or more specifically what the western white man believes, nature is in its pure state. In other occasions, especially when they hold large groups of animals, these places follow a purely rational type of organization, driven by criteria such as order and cleanliness, and the classification and enumeration of the members of the group.
The life of wild animals in these zoological gardens that either imitate their natural habitats or try to respond to an extreme rationalization of physical space, generates disturbing and contradictory images. The artful “territories” created for them contrast powerfully with the wild nature of the animals.
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