Buscando a Bolívar

The book is the result of Pietro Paolini’s trips to Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela between 2009 and 2014, documenting the landscape and daily life in the countries of the new Latin American socialism during the presidencies of Evo Morales, Rafael Correa and Hugo Chávez. Thanks to the photographic instrument, the artist has captured and described the existential realities of these nations by building a true visual novel: A story that represents the whole life, in all its historical, social, economic, anthropological and political implications. Pietro Paolini’s search focuses on creating images that escape the stereotypes with which these countries have been represented, trying to look at these places and these events in their complexity, highlighting the contradictions and idiosyncrasies in the construction of their contemporary identities.