New art and architecture, plus a plethora of design, fashion
and artisanal activities also flourish in and around Buenos
Aires. One of Teodelina's most talented friends is the young
photographer Jose Pereyra Lucena, who began taking
pictures at thirteen and never stopped. The shimmering
leitmotif of his work is the image of night skies and stars,
which in Argentina's powerful landscape are hypnotic.
Lucena's ideal vision is of the twilight or midnight hour,
moons, mists and shadows enveloping old buildings,
beaches, populated or not, and the sea.
Maria Gimenez, a remarkable interior designer and
photographer, produces
haunting black and white
photographs, of, for example a slightly ominous flight of
black birds against a silvery sky over wooden buildings,
reminiscent of Hitchcock. The image is one of a series
entitled Mundo—World—a darkly beautiful small universe.
In another mysterious photograph a small child stands
alone on the threshold of a smoky interior, spectral figures
barely traceable in the background. Gimenez's work,
finding strangeness in the mundane, evokes the following
line from Borges' Labyrinths:
"I cannot walk through the
suburbs in the solitude of
the night without thinking
that the night pleases us
because it suppresses idle
details, just as our memory
does."
Above: Interior by Maria Giminez
"The landscape is an act
of silence which makes
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