Gabriela Agüero

La Tinyu (sacred chanting) photograph – 24 x 60 in. Place and memory are intrinsic aspects of identity. Ontological perceptions of space embedded in cultural consciousness create pervasive specificities of time and space. These images precariously suggest narratives that aim at elucidating the disjuncture between perceptions of outdoor/indoor, nature/culture and domestic/public spaces whilst interrogating deeper (dis)connections to our environment as dark, fearful, anxious, wild or as an apostasy for the allure of the sensual. The tight coupling of images chronicle altered states in dimensions beyond the self. The figures exist in isolation and in constraint of voyeuristic windows where they…