El Blanco Infinito

"El Blanco Infinito" is an art project designed and photographed by me. The photographs were exhibited at Räume 2 as part of the Berlin Art Week in 2018. The printed edition has been published by the Brazilian independent publisher 'Pingado Prés' and it has been exhibited in several art fairs and bookshops around the world such as in Paris (Grand Palais), Madrid and is being sold in one of the main shops dedicated to Photobooks in New York. The Photobook was also a finalist for best editorial project by the Miolo Prize, in Brazil.

Lost in a white desert made of salt, we’re taken to the low and highlands of Bolivia, where Brazilian artist Laura Mascarenhas captured the endless hours of a storm that kept her from reaching Chile, the neighbouring country.

Mitigated by nature, the line where land and sky meet like borders between countries, becomes indistinct. The salty snow makes it impossible to differentiate sky from land, creating a white labyrinth with no division, boundaries or paths.

We look for ourselves in a white world of thick fog. The colours we find become moments of clarity and discovery - transposed at any moment by the black and white of night and snow. Uncertainty and disorder.

The violence of the storm deprives all shapes, paths and tracks from distinctness. The encounter with colours is a relief, a glorious moment of peace and beauty in El Blanco Infinito.

Text by Fernanda Santis