M6

This number of the Metalibro's Collection, presents us a selection and fabulous edition of Denis Ruiz-Aburto's photographs, which connect spaces and times that run in parallel in the cities of a world that is submerging in catastrophy, as if it had known for a long time. This edition unveils analog photography as a modern urban practice in all of its meanings, an exeptional mix of science, art and individualization; which as well as the cities with their technology, their appartment buildings and organization, founds itself impregnated with the aroma of the lost promise of wellbeing and emancipation, and the hidden stench of the catastrophy that was not understanding its intent of realization.

Starting this edition with images of ruined urban buildings is an election that makes us travel first through the decadence of that promise and its contradictions, so we can then pick up on its splendor. Through the trip and the wandering, photography submerges itself in an unknown world, it explores it on a limited time and consequently it tries to register it, making use of different type of cameras (analog and digital ones), pointing its view on occidental objects in a specific eastern geography: the motorcycles, the cars, a pay phone (oh! Such an ephemeral life that pay phones had in human history!). On the other hand, small and famous signs of the oriental emerge, it is about signs selected and imported to the south of the world, that guide our view when we observe and think about the asian giant, as if it had not woken up yet: the imperial doors of China, the palace guards, the chinese characters, the worn out places and the sheets hanging from the windows of the houses that lead to the streets.

In this edition of the Metalibro's Collection, the contraposition of black and white photographs and the colored ones confront us to the particular quality of the analog pho-tography. More specifically, they talk to us about the contradiction of the analog images in black and white, because they have reached the dream of making a copy of reality everything is just light and shadows- and they have not reached the representation of reality they lack the colors that we see in them. Photography always had a step to make, until it reached the color and it was too late to go back before the illusory and unsucces-full reality that it represents to us. Which it is also expressed in the five digital images that are alternated whitout us noticing major differences

Ruiz-Aburto reunites us with the beuty of the urban utopia of photography and the occidental promise that it keeps. Weather they are the black and white impressions of curopean styled urban landscapes, or the eastern figures in colors that tells us about the utopia of photography. It is in this register and representation of the most distant reality, where we observe the tracks of expansion and the offlimit production that turned against us and has been expeling us from the frame.