As part of the Venezuelan citizens community, I feel strong necessity to use my photographic job as a means to express social trends in a country facing political problems of autoritarian and dictatorial government establishment and its consecuences on the lives of millions of people who have been forcely attached to a not desired regulatory system. Many of Venezuelans have demonstrated to be strong enough by adopting resilent posture on the whole fact… yet, as time passes and political decisions are taken, hunger, poverty, lack on food, medicines and a huge quantity of primary need products increase excessively… the foresaid resilence has turned out to be an exhaustive, less healthy task to hold.
This photo series is based on adjectives that describe feelings that are not commonly shown in daily basis… however, these sensations are present in a quiet but obvious manner in most individuals who constantly express concerns and complains on how their lives are constantly affected by political and social caos. So far, I have worked the following adjectives: trapped, dissastrous, edgy, drowned, obssesed, destroyed and most recently, forgotten… I will continue to work on it untill I reach the quantity of 20.
In order to ensamble this conceptualization, I have worked with different outstanding Venezuelan actors and actresses who have collaborated by doing an incredible job interpreting feelings of desperation and anxiety in their scenic performances. At the same time, we have agreed to use no special effects on the photographic treatment and shot making, just acting and some scenography arrangements.
This series is being currently shown at theater rooms as an itinerant exhibition in Caracas – Venezuela.
Credits:
Photography and Artistic Direction: María Laura Barrios (FB) María Laura MLaura (Ins) @resenartemlaura.
Acting: Laura Gardié @lagardie (Destroyed) , Carlos Fabiàn Medina @fabianmedinae (Edgy), Raquel Zapata @raquelzapatam (Trapped), Pedro Borgo @pedroborgo (Disastrous), Nerea Ferández Dorronsoro @nereachu (Drowned), Elis Blanco @elisitabj (Obsessed), Sandra Moncada @sandraymg (Forgotten)…
©María Laura Barrios Alvarado
“Edgy”
“Drowned”
“Destroyed”
“Disastrous”
“Forgotten”
“Trapped”
