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Images of Contemporary Chilean Architecture

In the winter, 15 photographers visited some of the most iconic contemporary architecture projects that have put Chile on the map over the last three decades. A collection of new images presents the singularity of these works that have shaped the recent imaginary and brought visibility to this area of Chile’s cultural development. The photographs hover over details, forms, textures, lights and colors, in spaces, landscapes or natural environments. 

Documentary excerpts show the ways of life, the relations between buildings and cities or natural environments. This new view of these constructions highlights their contributions, intrinsic value, and the possible contemporary currents affecting the local culture. This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Winter: Images of Contemporary Chilean Architecture within the framework of the Festival of Architecture and City MEXTRÓPOLI 2020.

SPECTROGRAFÍA,

Through this photographic experience called SPECTROGRAFÍA, Tomás Casademunt has provided viewers with a glimpse into the visual chronicling that summarizes in a single visual stimulus the amazing ingenuity that can be found within construction. Through multiple exposures, images were taken on the same large-format photographic plate designed to maintain the same position over long periods of time equaling to months and years. 

Once construction is finished what is revealed is the photographic plate and a treasure visual testimony combining a time and space equation that results from repeated action. He then extends the negative image in his photo lab with chemical and photographic techniques on a responsive silver paper. Set on a large format jelly that allows viewers to appreciate the infinite details recorded by the plot film. Each building contains a new, unexpected story that showcases the hidden beauty within repetitive construction movements.

For the past fourteen years Casademunt has photographed sites using this technique of his own invention. He has explored the construction development of buildings designed by the most important Mexican architects of our time.