Superficies fotográficas: el resto, el trazo y las imágenes en crisis

Abstract

This article takes, on the one hand, as a turning point the Argentine crisis of 2001 to thread certain works of Argentine artistic photography that intersect art and politics, evoking one of the experiences of that political-social outbreak. On the other hand, the article thinks of photography in its objectual nature from an important dimension of photographic materiality: its surface. Specifically, the visual strategies of two photographic groups will be displayed: the series Banks, by Juan Travnik (2003-2005) and Corralito, by Nuna Mangiante (2009). The photographic image, a surface itself, captures in these series the very surface of the spaces of the city in crisis, especially around its economic consequences and what was known as "the bank corralito". Their procedures and choices will define them as photographic memories of a past in crisis.