St. Moritz. The non-place of Luis Molina-Pantin.

Karina Sainz Borgo / 2007  His glance voids the places he looks at, it deserts them. To blink, to photograph. It’s the same: it prompts a wipe out. Luis Molina-Pantin (Geneva, Switzerland,1969) does not portray objects; he listens through them. He speaks in their own language. He captures the silence, the instant in which you wonder if his images are…

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Modernity Deferred: The Work of Luis Molina-Pantin

Coco Fusco My photographs are nudes of the sets that I see as still lives. Luis Molina-Pantin But is the popular nothing more than the effect of certain acts of Enunciation and staging? Nestor García-Canclini. Hybrid Cultures With his images of depopulated man-made spaces, Luis Molina-Pantin unhinges photography’s promise to present us with a view of the real disentangled from…

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Luis Molina-Pantin. The participant observer

Julieta González To collect photographs is to collect the world… Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood. Susan Sontag, On Photography1 Inventories seem to have a significant place in the work of Luis Molina-Pantin, whose oeuvre is featured as a sort of atlas containing an array of elements that…

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The Difference Between Being Global And Knowing The World

The Difference Between Being Global And Knowing The World Luis Pérez Oramas   “From my earliest days I felt the urge to travel to distant and seldom visited lands. This urge characterizes a moment when our life seems to open before us like a limitless horizon in which nothing attracts us more than intense mental thrills and images of positive…

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The Pharmacy of the Landscape Luis Pérez Oramas

In a series of everyday objects – lighters, matchboxes, credit cards, mouse pads, air fresheners, lamps, books – Luis Molina-Pantin has encountered the landscape. His photographs thus depict these objects as supports for the landscapes found on them. As we can deduce from the list, the repertoire is varied and seems not to contain any meaningful key. What relationship can…

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