Eng.

Panorama is born with a very specific mission: to help create and reinforce a global consciousness regarding the different challenges we as a society face in terms of landscape and territory.

For that reason, we’ve decided to create this platform to join together artistic projects with didactic content to attempt to reach, in the easiest and most comprehensive way, this reflexion to a large part of the society.

We believe that artistic projects accompanied by specialized texts are the best tool for any person, even those who haven’t  shown interest in this subjects before, to understand how as a society we need to reflect on our relationship with landscape and territory.

With this idea Panorama aims to become a big archive where anyone can meet and consult the different authors regarding this matters. And what’s also important, to contemplate them from different points of view.

 

Cast.

Panorama nace con una misión muy concreta: ayudar a crear/reforzar una conciencia global sobre los distintos retos que tenemos como sociedad en relación al territorio y al paisaje.

Para ello, hemos decidido crear esta plataforma que aglutina proyectos artísticos con contenidos didácticos para intentar hacer llegar, de la manera más fácil y entendedora posible, esta reflexión a un amplio conjunto de la sociedad.

Creemos que los proyectos artísticos acompañados de textos especializados son la mejor herramienta para que cualquier persona, aunque nunca antes se haya interesado por estos temas, pueda comprender que como sociedad tenemos que hacer una reflexión sobre nuestra relación con el territorio y el paisaje.

Panorama pretende con esta idea convertirse en un gran archivo donde cualquiera pueda conocer y consultar los distintos autores que trabajan en torno a estas cuestiones. Y lo que también es muy importante, contemplarlas desde distintos puntos de vista.

 

Cat.

Panorama neix amb un objectiu molt concret: ajudar a crear/reforçar una consciència global sobre els diferents reptes que tenim com a societat en relació al territori i al paisatge.

Per això, hem decidit aquesta plataforma que aglutina projectes artístics amb continguts didàctics per intentar fer arribar, de la manera més fàcil y comprensible possible, aquesta reflexió a un ampli conjunt de la societat.

Creiem que els projectes artístics acompanyats de textos especialitzats son la millor eina per a que qualsevol persona, tot i que no s’hagi interessat mai abans per aquests temes, pugui comprendre que com a societat hem de fer una reflexió sobre la nostre relació amb el territori i el paisatge.

Panorama pretén amb aquesta idea convertir-se en un gran arxiu on qualsevol pugui conèixer i consultar els diversos autors que treballen a l’entorn d’aquestes qüestions. I el que també és molt important, contemplar-les des de diferents punts de vista.

 

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Depicted in this project are fragments of the American experience: private back yards, public roads, landmarks built or dismantled. Viewed together, relationships between disparate sites and structures emerge, highlighting the various systems that direct our collective national consciousness: business, infrastructure, agriculture, territory, racism, religion, power, entertainment, tourism, and more. 

Dictated by these invisible forces, the indelible marks of past actions and diverse quests for an American Dream become potent symbols in our visual landscape. The photographs – of walls, gaps, signs, memorials, artifacts, debris – construct a shared language from the physical material of these systems, one that both reflects and forewarns.

In many images there is a sense that something is missing, whether physical or contextual, underscoring the incomplete narratives that photographs and history often tell. Absent also of human figures, it is as if the subjects of these images are waiting for something, suspended in time, suggesting a portrait of our past, present, and future all at once.

Image locations & titles:

01. Rt. 287 South, Montana (cloud, mountain)

02. Uvalde, Texas (Blockbuster)

03. Watauga County, North Carolina (Confederate flag scrap)

04. Austin, Texas (cowboy)

05. Alliance, Nebraska (Carhenge)

06. Navajo Nation outside Page, Arizona (view of former Navajo Generating Station)

07. Holy Land U.S.A., Waterbury, Connecticut (statue)

08. New Orleans, Louisiana (Mardi Gras beads) 

09. Santa Barbara, California (lemon tree)

10. Gary, Indiana (Michael Jackson’s childhood home)

11. St. Bernard Parish bordering New Orleans, Louisiana (levee, floodwall)

12. Calexico, California (Mexican border wall)  

13. Austin, Texas (Our Lady of Guadalupe)

14. Route 66, Kingman, Arizona (motel mural)

15. “They Also Ran” Gallery, Norton, Kansas (dedicated to presidential candidates who ran and lost) 

Kim Llerena is a photographic artist based in Miami, Florida. She holds an MFA in Photographic & Electronic Media from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a BA in Journalism from New York University. She exhibits nationally in addition to serving as full-time faculty at the University of Miami. 

Llerena was a D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities Fellowship Program grantee in 2021, a Flash Forward Competition top 100 winner selected by The Magenta Foundation in 2019, and one of 100 photographers invited to participate in CENTER’s Review Santa Fe in 2019. Her work investigates our constructed relationship to place, particularly our methods of delineating terrain, territory, and private/public spaces.

© text and pictures by Kim Llerena

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