Events/Openings

Enblanco is pleased to announce "The Waste Land", an exhibition by Sergio Escalante del Valle.

"The Waste Land" presents a selection of photographic works, a series of landscapes with a mutual and a predominant theme: nature transformed through industry.

The five large-size photographs and ten smaller ones show infertile, barren, uninhabited and environmentally unfriendly areas in which the destructive man-made marks on the landscape are painfully present.
We see uncontrolled industrial excesses and deserted suburban housing complexes in hostile environments. Essentially, absurdly planned spaces, unnatural, malignant and unsuitable for life.

Particularly Spain has experienced an uncontrolled fever of such landscaping interventions in the last decade, and Escalante's work delivers a brief insight in these edificial exaggerations. It is a subjective and concentrated vision of what he has seen during many trips through several regions of Spain in the last two years. These photographs should be more seen as a chronicle or an elegy rather than a protest - they are mirrors reflecting our times.

They also derive from Escalante's interest in T.S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land". He has been repeating it's words like a mantra for years, transferring them into images which capture the dilemma of our modern existence: our world is collapsing through our wealth.