Urbanautica: A special insight featuring the work of Argentinian photographer Cynthia Nudel.
September 27, 2012 by Manfrotto
Filed under Experience
A special insight by Urbanautica for Manfrotto School of Xcellence featuring interview the work of Argentinian photographer Cynthia Nudel. Before settling in Spain, she graduated in Art and studied Psy
chology. She started studying Photography in 2006 and since then she has attended several Documentary Photography courses. She has won various national and international prizes and her work has been showed in Spain, Colombia, Italy and the USA. In recent years she has worked as a photography teacher at various cultural centers in Barcelona. Nowadays, she lives in Alicante.
«My approach is completely visual and intuitive. I like to turn the common into something magical and different. Taking photos is my way of understanding and interpreting what is around me. Usually, my photos have to do with something personal, something that obsesses me. It’s hard to explain logically why I’m interested in certain issues, in fact, I like it to be something unconscious and intuitive. That’s one of the aspects I love about photography: often you do certain things without understanding why but, at the end, those things have much to do with yourself, with your experience and the way we interact with our surroundings. Another thing I like about photography is that it has a visual and artistic part and, on the other hand, there’s a lot of analysis and reflection. It is a way to analyze yourself and it’s a very good tool to analyze the people around you».
«I’m specially attracted to everything about the creative process in art in general: how an artist works, where he gets his ideas and the process that goes from the raw idea to the finished work. With “Taxidermy” I realize that there’s an obsession with detail in my photographs. I do not usually shoot landscapes, my eyes are always focused in the little things. Nowadays I’m in a phase of transformation and experimentation. I think my work is changing and evolving into something more artistic. I love to do hand-made stuff; cutting and pasting and that kind of things, so I’m trying to implement that into my photos».
«The purpose of a taxidermist is to give live appearance to a dead animal. To achieve this, he erases all traces of death, to hide to the viewer’s eye everything that might be unpleasant or that shatters the illusion of seeing an animal that, as if by magic, has been frozen in motion. In “Taxidermy”, viewers access images through a hole that guides their look. This peephole deliberately hides the rest of the scene to focus their attention on certain details that try to undo the steps followed by the taxidermist. This “Taxidermy in reverse” wants to investigate the thin line between animate matter and dead material. With the same attention to detail as the artist, “Taxidermy” retraces the path to reflect on the contradiction of trying to breathe life into a corpse: An attempt that seems to reveal certain truths about our condition».
