At the inaugural speech of his retrospective exhibition, MZ declared himself a proponent of 'pure photography', characterized by direct capture and the ability to "capture the essence of things". Also, he expressed his rejection of curators from the visual arts who enter the world of photography "without knowing anything about it". According to MZ, they are accomplices "in making contemporary production increasingly resemble interior decoration", as they "try to turn photography into something it is not".
As a response, I secretly wrote and distributed a new text attempting to establish a temporal distance from MZ's work and position the artist as a social subject within a specific context of art history. Leveraging the possibilities of the curatorial format, the writing does not aim to confront the artist but rather to comprehend his aesthetic-political discourse within a determined framework of thought. It seeks to account for the reasons behind his monological perspective and to contextualize and relativize the constrained meaning that MZ attempts to impose on the medium of photography.
100 numbered texts.
20x30 cm each one. March 2014
Centro Cultural Recoleta. Buenos Aires
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