Medium Specificity

Artist Statement

This collage praises the uniqueness of having only one frame capturing motion, also depicts certain critique to what a picture can do.  Photography has the distinctive quality of capturing one frame as a moment in time. With this characteristic in mind, I wanted to demonstrate the effects of having a picture of ourselves. In the collage we can see a family in an art gallery who is looking at themselves posing for a picture. The family is dress in the same way that in the picture, and all of them are reunited almost giving some admiration to this piece of art. A moment in time brings memories that only the people who were in the picture can remember, also people who is watching this picture can relate to this as if they can be this family.  The critique in this collage  is that sometimes we use photography as a narcissist way, especially with the social networks or other new current new media. We use this to portray an image more than reality, pictures can serve a  medium of both things, reality or fiction. The fact that they are looking up to their own picture is a sign of a certain vanity.  These are only assumptions of this work, but maybe this family must have a terrible conflict, but the way they want to portrait their lives is as if they are happy and united. On the other hand, they are looking at themselves to remember how important is family for them, and the fact that all of them are looking is a sign that they are still united. Only one frame in photography can bring countless memories and feelings, the singularity of this medium  has impacted on people in such a way that many families reach a photographer and have a picture of their own family  in their wallet, house, Facebook, and many other places only- to remember or bring memories from the past to the present.