“There are thousands of people in Buenos Aires who are hidden and exposed to the public eye. They live in public, hide and do not show themselves. There are several in Buenos Aires thousands of people live on the streets. Living on the streets means sleeping on the streets above all else” is written Martin Caparros With the introduction of exclusion (Rizoma, $40,000), a photo collection of his friends. Dani Yako.
This new work is a collection of 64 black and white images of people sleeping outdoors in the city of Buenos Aires, covered with blankets, towels, plastic and cardboard, and concludes a “trilogy about Argentina”. extinction (with photos from 1989 to 2000) Referring to the labor crisis of the 1990s, silence (2005/2015), about life in a popular neighborhood where all residents are suffering from the effects of unemployment.
“I’m so old that sometimes I still wonder what art is. -Caparos speaks to LA NACION-. And sometimes he even answers me. One was when I saw the photos that Dani Yako had taken over the years and now make up his book, our book. exclusion. That’s almost an obvious answer. Art makes the invisible visible and forces us to look beyond it with other eyes.. In this case, the covered body that we have to imagine is more there because it is not really there than if it were just there. ”
photo of exclusion These were taken between 2010 and 2025 and cover the central governments of different political groups in the country, even the same Buenos Aires city government.
The three photo books of the “Argentine Trilogy” include text by Caparros, who has just published a new novel. BUEfeaturing a special protagonist: the city of Buenos Aires.
“It addresses people who are left out of the system,” Yaco told LA NACION. You can’t see the faces, only the shapes of the people living on the street.;variations of the same image. ”Some people sleep alone. Some are accompanied by people or dogs.
There are photos taken in San Telmo, Barrio Norte, Palermo, Constitución, Recoleta, Patricios Park, and the squares and streets of downtown Buenos Aires. “There are thousands of people. It is impossible to know how many,” the authors write. At the beginning-. There are official numbers, but like everyone else, they are not reliable.so it is impossible to know that number. ” As the author and chronicler observes, “the fuller districts of the city are more welcoming; there are better-made corridors and nooks, more abundant garbage and waste, and even a certain security.” In some images, the wear and tear of the city is also evident.
“Dani Yako has always walked the streets and walked around the city. A few years ago, during his walks around us, he began to come across hidden bodies. More and more hidden corpses: More and more hidden corpses on display; “He started taking pictures of them respectfully.”
These photos could, and perhaps should, be interpreted as a complaint, but they resemble the gesture of someone staring at people sleeping on the street as if they wanted to hug them.
“Argentina took a fundamental step by restoring democracy in 1983. but Social conditions continue to deteriorate since the 1970s -Yako observes-. exclusion talk Those who suffer most from this decline. We already incorporate them into our urban landscapes, and we rarely see them. ”
Available at Arte x Arte, Eterna Cadencia, Libreria Norte, Libros del Pasajé, Buenos Aires Museum of Latin American Art and the LaRivière Foundation bookstore. Also on the photographer’s Instagram account.
Yako will be presenting today. exclusion 7 p.m. with journalist Maria O’Donnell at Eterna Cadencia Bookstore (5582 Honduras).
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