Coast Line Photographs (Nuevo Cañete, Puerto Supe, Cerro Azul, Cerro del Oro, Pasamayo)

An emblematic photographer of a generation that participated in the local modification of the artistic canon in the 1990s, Juan Enrique Bedoya reveals the landscape of the coast through a peculiar perspective. In these images, the artist carries out a study on the different types of territory: five instances that cross information concerning the natural landscape and the social or cultural landscape. The series shows recent constructions that in a certain way parody the pre-Hispanic vestiges, where the precariousness of the new urban invasions resembles that of the old ruins, and in which the asymmetry of the rugged landscape competes with the urban grid distended over the coast. It is in this contrast between territory and architecture, between geometry and history, that the artist seems to discover the repetition of the old and wise models of the past suddenly converted into new and misguided systems for settling the territory and the landscape of the present.