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Cecile Hartmann -Worker 2008, digital print on paper, 120x90cm (edition of 3)Orange is use in construction because it is a high contrast color; works as advertence to others, identify temporary elements intruded in our daily life-ways. Cecile has work the topic of orange color in her series about canvas suitcases displaced for public sites, but in this series, social implications goes from to move a space to think about the dissident.
The photo was taken by day, while happens the current hours of work, and shows a worker who walks in an apparently casual direction. No, we realize that distance and direction are impossible, this is not his way, It is no current. In this way the photo is indecipherable, where he goes? It is not a physic description but a mood, a thought.
Landscape and just one person remind us paintings of romanticism, particularly to David Caspar Friedrich. Landscape overflows the person, it is upper, he can not contain it and it is sublime. But now the landscape is urban, show the cultural ambition to progress. It is not unfunded that Burj Dubai stays in the back. It is the highest skyscraper on the world. But we can not see finished buildings, whit their beautiful frontages that reflect light. The buildings are exhibit at distance, uncompleted, or at least whit enough dust like make them dirty. We see the backside of the progress, the temporary and uncompleted part. Everybody knows that Dubai’s paradise is made for thousands workers imported from Pakistan, India and others neighbor countries. They live in very hard conditions. In this case, Cecile closes to their reality from a social point of view but without utopia: we have two faces, and in some moment we are deserters or at least dissidents.
The photo was taken by day, while happens the current hours of work, and shows a worker who walks in an apparently casual direction. No, we realize that distance and direction are impossible, this is not his way, It is no current. In this way the photo is indecipherable, where he goes? It is not a physic description but a mood, a thought.
Landscape and just one person remind us paintings of romanticism, particularly to David Caspar Friedrich. Landscape overflows the person, it is upper, he can not contain it and it is sublime. But now the landscape is urban, show the cultural ambition to progress. It is not unfunded that Burj Dubai stays in the back. It is the highest skyscraper on the world. But we can not see finished buildings, whit their beautiful frontages that reflect light. The buildings are exhibit at distance, uncompleted, or at least whit enough dust like make them dirty. We see the backside of the progress, the temporary and uncompleted part. Everybody knows that Dubai’s paradise is made for thousands workers imported from Pakistan, India and others neighbor countries. They live in very hard conditions. In this case, Cecile closes to their reality from a social point of view but without utopia: we have two faces, and in some moment we are deserters or at least dissidents.
Luis Alberto Mejia Clavijo
