Master of Contemporary Photography from Eftí in Madrid. Curro Rodriguez currently resides in Reykjavik, Iceland. His work is situated between photography, video, intervention, and performance in natural spaces. He has participated in international video art shows such as IVAHM, in Madrid, or WOW Venice. Taking part in exhibitions such as Begira Photo, Carlow Arts Festival, Pa-ta-ta Festival of emerging photography in Granada, or the exhibition Ser-Aqui, in the Provincial Council of Cádiz. He has been awarded different national distinctions such as the First Prize Upcycling, Ecoembes, or Photoalicante.
His speech shows and debates the relationship/disjunction of current being and natural space, the instinctive search for origin, the vernacular. “Walking the dividing line between what is acquired and what is found, between what is thought and what is dreamed, a duality that is always found in the intermediate zones, where nothing happens until it happens, always slowly and almost invisible. Wrapping up with the covering of the atavistic and the ancestral in an innate way is nothing more than letting that brutalist, and at the same time uncomfortable, surface when faced with what is conditioned to facilitate the path, what is moulded. The scream, the lip of the battered rock, the drift to which the pain is directed, and the smell that is perceived when it dissipates. These are the branches where what he does and what he seeks is sustained.
About ‘Debla’ – words by Curro Rodriguez:
“Debla” talks about human behavior, about the not relationship between man and nature. “Debla” walks among stages recreated by people and forget after has been used. Freud talked about “unheimlich”, I am trying to put images of that strangely familiar concept walking around cities and refunding abandon spaces as nature did it before us. With this project I am working with borders and limits between us and another world, the ancient world, the real earth.
The sensation, uncomfortable, when you are alone, touching stones was touched years ago, roads now used by wild animals. A kind of Lost and Found but talking about feelings, related to our behaviour as animals, our instincts.
The brutality of the horizon represented dreamily, as scenarios recreated by and for the reverie of the strange. A restructured landscape that gives rise to new wild natural spaces, new “ecosystems” that occur after human action on those territories, giving it a degree of rarity and discomfort that eventually make the subject a being alien to its initial creation.
The perpetual struggle for the land, not as a surface that houses us, but as a dimension that disintegrates us, forces us to leave the eternal stigma of supremacy over everything that surrounds us or corners us, depending on how we wish to understand it; adhering to it the need for superior control, to educate the untamed to, in our opinion, make it beautiful, leaving behind the sublime, the rugged landscape, the wild animal, to attribute a new functionality to our service.
