Artist Residency
Cité internationale des arts
Paris
April 2019

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Residency to work my ongoing research Intuitive Projects. The project is developed in collaboration with curator and writer Federica Chiocchetti, founding director of the photo-literary platform Photocaptionist.

Intuitive Project is a platform dedicated to exploring the work and life of my great-grand uncle, Chilean-born, painter, poet, playboy and boxer, Álvaro Guevara Reimers (1894-1951). The project began with a gift from my grand-mother, the photographic album Sun&Shadow, which depicts Guevara’s eccentric upbringing in Chile. The photographs follow his family passage from Valparaíso to Harrogate, England in 1906, after a devastating earthquake had left their home in ruins. The photographs follow the life on the Guevara’s in Harrogate and their Grand European Tour until 1915, when the family returned to Chile threatened by the shadow of World War I – except for Alvaro who stayed in London to pursue his artistic career.

From and beyond the album, since 2013, I have built a substantial archive composed of found images, documents and new photographs works in Britain, Chile and France.

Link to Intuitive Projects
Link to La Cité
Link to publication by Photocaptionist. Unseen Magazine, issue 2, 2015