Mexico, 1977.
Lives and works in Mexico City.
Aglae Cortés
(Los otros) Recuerdos del futuro: Tiempo petrificado
Inkjet / Barite Paper
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Aglae Cortés
2016
Fine Art print & Acid free varnish
Ed. 7 + 2 A.P.
(Español) “Vivimos en un contexto social, politico y cultural incierto. Los acelerados avances tecnológicos no siempre van de la mano con el avance del pensamiento, lo que genera una fuerte sensación de terra-incógnita sobre el futuro. (Los otros) recuerdos del futuro es un cuerpo de trabajo de largo aliento que inició el año pasado a partir de una residencia artística en Fiskars, Finlandia y pretende desarrollarse en diferentes latitudes. Las condiciones territoriales en extremo opuestas a mi cotidianidad, un pequeño pueblo de 50 habitantes y culturalmente fríos, en pleno invierno polar, con cuatro horas de luz al día, un idioma completamente ajeno, etc, fueron factores determinantes para enfocarme en la alteración que puede sufrir la percepción del tiempo y espacio aún en la misma planeta.” Aglae Cortés
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Aglae Cortés
2017
Archival pigment print
Edition of 5 + 2 A.P.
(Español) “Vivimos en un contexto social, politico y cultural incierto. Los acelerados avances tecnológicos no siempre van de la mano con el avance del pensamiento, lo que genera una fuerte sensación de terra-incógnita sobre el futuro. (Los otros) recuerdos del futuro es un cuerpo de trabajo de largo aliento que inició el año pasado a partir de una residencia artística en Fiskars, Finlandia y pretende desarrollarse en diferentes latitudes. Las condiciones territoriales en extremo opuestas a mi cotidianidad, un pequeño pueblo de 50 habitantes y culturalmente fríos, en pleno invierno polar, con cuatro horas de luz al día, un idioma completamente ajeno, etc, fueron factores determinantes para enfocarme en la alteración que puede sufrir la percepción del tiempo y espacio aún en la misma planeta.” Aglae Cortés
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Aglae Cortés
2017
Inyección de tinta sobre papel baritado
Edition of 5 + 2 A.P.
(Español) “Vivimos en un contexto social, politico y cultural incierto. Los acelerados avances tecnológicos no siempre van de la mano con el avance del pensamiento, lo que genera una fuerte sensación de terra-incógnita sobre el futuro. (Los otros) recuerdos del futuro es un cuerpo de trabajo de largo aliento que inició el año pasado a partir de una residencia artística en Fiskars, Finlandia y pretende desarrollarse en diferentes latitudes. Las condiciones territoriales en extremo opuestas a mi cotidianidad, un pequeño pueblo de 50 habitantes y culturalmente fríos, en pleno invierno polar, con cuatro horas de luz al día, un idioma completamente ajeno, etc, fueron factores determinantes para enfocarme en la alteración que puede sufrir la percepción del tiempo y espacio aún en la misma planeta.” Aglae Cortés
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Aglae Cortés
2017
Inyección de tinta sobre papel baritado
Edition of 5 + 2 A.P.
(Español) “Vivimos en un contexto social, politico y cultural incierto. Los acelerados avances tecnológicos no siempre van de la mano con el avance del pensamiento, lo que genera una fuerte sensación de terra-incógnita sobre el futuro. (Los otros) recuerdos del futuro es un cuerpo de trabajo de largo aliento que inició el año pasado a partir de una residencia artística en Fiskars, Finlandia y pretende desarrollarse en diferentes latitudes. Las condiciones territoriales en extremo opuestas a mi cotidianidad, un pequeño pueblo de 50 habitantes y culturalmente fríos, en pleno invierno polar, con cuatro horas de luz al día, un idioma completamente ajeno, etc, fueron factores determinantes para enfocarme en la alteración que puede sufrir la percepción del tiempo y espacio aún en la misma planeta.” Aglae Cortés
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Aglae Cortés
2012
Ed. 5 + 2 A.P
Archival pigment print
Her oeuvre explores space and time as concepts covering what we call reality, becoming a process of abstract landscape experimentations. Cortés makes an approach to a direct knowledge of our surroundings, to disarticulate them in fragments, as elements of a immaterial space. In her series Aforismos Visuales (2011 - 2017), the photography, instead or being a mimetic instrument, is more a glance’s analog tool to register and construct an alternate reality which disappears to the view and can only stay in the image. Over time, her work has become a visual depuration to remove and remove elements; at first on the architecture, then on the body and landscape, and finally in the minimalists forms of the space. “I think on the photographic process as the dematerialization of the captured space, which once materialized again in a new image, nevers came back the same. This very decomposition is something new that maybe does not have a name yet. The real space only manifest itself for an instant, when it loses its referent, before the connotations and the denotations.”
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Aglae Cortés
2012
Ed. 5 + 2 A.P
Archival pigment print
Her oeuvre explores space and time as concepts covering what we call reality, becoming a process of abstract landscape experimentations. Cortés makes an approach to a direct knowledge of our surroundings, to disarticulate them in fragments, as elements of a immaterial space. In her series Aforismos Visuales (2011 - 2017), the photography, instead or being a mimetic instrument, is more a glance’s analog tool to register and construct an alternate reality which disappears to the view and can only stay in the image. Over time, her work has become a visual depuration to remove and remove elements; at first on the architecture, then on the body and landscape, and finally in the minimalists forms of the space. “I think on the photographic process as the dematerialization of the captured space, which once materialized again in a new image, nevers came back the same. This very decomposition is something new that maybe does not have a name yet. The real space only manifest itself for an instant, when it loses its referent, before the connotations and the denotations.”
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Aglae Cortés
2011
Ed. 5 + 2 A.P
Archival pigment print
Her oeuvre explores space and time as concepts covering what we call reality, becoming a process of abstract landscape experimentations. Cortés makes an approach to a direct knowledge of our surroundings, to disarticulate them in fragments, as elements of a immaterial space. In her series Aforismos Visuales (2011 - 2017), the photography, instead or being a mimetic instrument, is more a glance’s analog tool to register and construct an alternate reality which disappears to the view and can only stay in the image. Over time, her work has become a visual depuration to remove and remove elements; at first on the architecture, then on the body and landscape, and finally in the minimalists forms of the space. “I think on the photographic process as the dematerialization of the captured space, which once materialized again in a new image, nevers came back the same. This very decomposition is something new that maybe does not have a name yet. The real space only manifest itself for an instant, when it loses its referent, before the connotations and the denotations.”
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Aglae Cortés
2015 - 2017
Ed. 5 + 2 A.P
Archival pigment print
Her oeuvre explores space and time as concepts covering what we call reality, becoming a process of abstract landscape experimentations. Cortés makes an approach to a direct knowledge of our surroundings, to disarticulate them in fragments, as elements of a immaterial space. In her series Aforismos Visuales (2011 - 2017), the photography, instead or being a mimetic instrument, is more a glance’s analog tool to register and construct an alternate reality which disappears to the view and can only stay in the image. Over time, her work has become a visual depuration to remove and remove elements; at first on the architecture, then on the body and landscape, and finally in the minimalists forms of the space. “I think on the photographic process as the dematerialization of the captured space, which once materialized again in a new image, nevers came back the same. This very decomposition is something new that maybe does not have a name yet. The real space only manifest itself for an instant, when it loses its referent, before the connotations and the denotations.”
Approximate view with unframed print. Ask for exact available dimensions
Aglae Cortés
Mexico, 1977.
Lives and works in Mexico City.
An active figure of a new generation of contemporary photographers, Cortés has exhibited in solo and collectively in Mexico, Spain and Latin America, including the XVI Bienal of Photography Centro de la Imagen, Mexico (2014), the San Francisco Camerawork and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York.
In 2016 Cortés won the VII National Visual Arts Acquisition Prize and the Sonora’s Creadores con Trayectoria FECAS-PECDA scholarship. In 2015 the Arts Museum of Sinaloa presented her individual exhibition “El peso del tiempo en una línea imaginaria” and she obtained the XV Bienal de Artes Visuales del Noroeste Acquisition Prize. Winner of the Photography Show 2012 1st Place and selected for Trasatlántica at PhotoEspaña, Aglae was appointed with the the National System of Young Creators of Arts.
Her images has been covers for Tierra Adentro in Mexico and Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore in Italy as well as published in the magazines Indie Rocks!, La Tempestad, in the catalogue The Art of Photography Show and in the online publications LAT Photo Magazine, Fórum Latinoamericano de Fotografía y F-Stop Magazine. Her work is part of Alain Servais Collection, the collection of the Bienal de Artes Visuales del Noroeste, of the Museum of Art of Sinaloa MASIN and of the CODET foundation.
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Her oeuvre explores space and time as concepts covering what we call reality, becoming a process of abstract landscape experimentations. Cortés makes an approach to a direct knowledge of our surroundings, to disarticulate them in fragments, as elements of a immaterial space.
In her series Aforismos Visuales (2011 - 2017), photography is not a mimetic instrument but a glance’s analog tool to register and construct an alternate reality which disappears to the view and can only stay in the image.
Over time, her work has become a visual depuration to “remove and remove” elements; at first on the architecture, then on the body and landscape, and finally in the minimalists forms of the space.
“I think on the photographic process as the dematerialization of the captured space, which once materialized again in a new image, nevers came back the same. This very decomposition is something new that maybe does not have a name yet. The real space only manifest itself for an instant, when it loses its referent, before the connotations and the denotations.”
