Cristian Kirby studied sociology, film and photography workshops led by photographer Jorge Paz Errazuriz and Gronemeyer In his photographic projects includes using photosensitive procedures and use of nontraditional media. Considering how fundamental ontological work particularities of the medium, as is the indexicality of reference and its impact, aesthetic, formal, conceptual and experimental, which sees facing in its visual strategy to the recognition of reality.
Identifies his photographic record developed by the visual arts, in the sense of presenting a visual related to a discourse practice that diffuse away from the photographer scope of the term and its uses “art” based on the classification of genres. Considers fundamental ontological work particularities of the medium, as is the indexicality of reference and its impact aesthetic, formal, conceptual and experimental.
Their proposals are part of a photographic tradition linked to the processes and photo-chemical analogue, and where is its visual references, ranging from documentary photography to proposals developed during the time of the vanguards and during post modernity, at the photographic medium functions as a device that is recognized in each of these strategies, opposing the recognition of reality and directed towards the expansion of photographic language.
In recent times discussed systematically in Chile. Some of them are: “Who emerges n200, the healer?” “Sorry we dropped the system” Area G. Art Lab. Valparaíso, “Matches” Centro Cultural Matucana 100, “Sin Nombre.” Young Art Balmaceda. Call Siglo XXI “Displacement / Space.” Cargo room; “Whereabouts Transantiago” “Aspects of the urban“. Mackenna Museum, National Photo Day. Test strip. International Photography Festival FIFV 2011. During 2012 and 2013 exposed part of the collective explosion. “Speaking in silver” roaming through different cities and photography festivals in Spain.
Cristian Kirby (b. 1070) is Chilean. He lives in Chile.
Weekend portfolio selected by Quentin Bajac
