Transatlantic Migrations Diaries
A journey documenting a search for rituals and modern aesthetics. The interpretation begins with the camera, since the image in the viewfinder is never what is seen in the mind’s eye.
Cities: Havana – Algarve – Dakar – Panama – Brussels – Tulum – Ceara – NYC Color Prints 90 x 120 cm | 44 x 29 cm
All Photos © A.J. Guzman
2003 – 2011
The Day We Surrender Series
The Surrender series are link to the place were my ancestors come from the last 20,000 years. The photos and documentaries are made up of multiple histories and question the role of my ancestors in a post colonial society and ultimately in the contemporary world.
Cities: Dakar – Mont Blanc – Panama – Fortaleza – Kuna Yala – L.A
Color Prints 135 x 90 cm | 44 x 29 cm
All Photos © A.J. Guzman
2006 – 2010
Piertopolis Series
The images of Piertopolis comprises the photographic work of my latest project: the Bas Jan Ader, Paul Gilroy, Martin Kippenberger’s and Constant, inspired research Piertopolis Project, a search for a new visual definition of notions like migration, gravity, locality, ancestry and identity. Trying to conceive the causes and results of human displacement.
Cities: Bodø – Lofoten – Bergen – New York – Mumbai
Color Prints 135 x 90 cm | 44 x 29 cm
All Photos © A.J. Guzman
2010 – 2011
Cross Crossings
Multiple images crossing roads and piers. To be presented as one large print in a simultaneously series of transitions of photos in different time and cities.
Cities: Amsterdam – Huntington Beach, California – Mumbai – Murud Janjira – Bocas del Toro Color Print 235 x 190 cm
All Photos © A.J. Guzman
2009 – 2011
biological origins
Inspired by the work of German Dada artist Hannah Höch, this first series of photo drawings in collaboration with Italian artist Francesca Müller are called “Biological Origins”, they explore with traditional photomontage and Panamanian ancient textile techniques. The images are from different of my photographic series and contain elements at once real. They are representations of physical space, by definition, an illusion. A collision between aesthetics and ethics. The contradictions of Africa, Latin America, the modern world and cultural identity, drawing the viewer into conversations about colonialism and race.
Cities: Havana – New York – Dakar – Panama City
Mixed media collage, paint, printed on inkjet paper / Indian textile
Color Prints 44 x 29 cm
All Photos © A.J. Guzman © Francesca Müller
2011
