Josman

Residency period: August 2016

Josman works in the scope of what is considered Post Photography.
The work presented here consists on a series of screenshots taken while navigating in different videogames, extracting negatives and revealing them in photographic paper. We find in front of our eyes landscape photographies which although can remain places we know, for most of us they are completely new.
This which could be understood as the necessity of any documentalist or explorer: discovering new worlds, capturing them with his camera and show them to whom have never been there, is in fact, a wink which opens multiple questions.
On one hand, he makes us question how “real” , or not, has what we see knowing that they are virtual worlds. Isn’t real the time spending of thousand of people creating and discovering these worlds? Playing with their characters? Doesn’t the brain experiments a discovery when walking with his avatar through new landscapes that has never seen?
On the other hand he makes us think in a world completely tracked. Can one be an explorer or documentalist in times where technology registers with its cameras (surveillance, satellite, the ones in the millions of cellphones) each corner of this planet?
Last, Josman questions the state of photography itself and its artistic sense.
If there is something that post photography makes evident is that contemporary art can barely lin on the creation of the irreproducible object or the image, but in the questions or sensations with which confront us. Can not conform with the dexterity and technical ability of the artist, neither with a passive spectator.