Of Mexican origin, Damián Siqueiros is a Montreal-based image maker : not the kind that reflects reality, but the kind that imagines one to transform it into something tangible, often through multidisciplinary work, be it art direction, stage design, make-up or styling.
Photography, reality or fiction?
Always fiction. Reality is only a consensus between consciousnesses. Photography is the record of the appreciation of that consensus.
Your principal fault?
I have a love-hate relationship with neatness.
Photographer or artist?
Artist.
What is a successful photo?
One which is also a mirror.
What inspires you about black and white?
The simplicity of the resources.
What inspires you about colour?
The synthesis.
Art is political?
Each artist has his own reasoning, but I don’t see how you can create without a political consciousness.
The country where you would like to live?
In my head.
Your materials?
Human connections.
Interview by Corridor Éléphant
http://www.damiansiqueiros.com
CORRIDOR ÉLÉPHANT was founded in 2012 by a group of a dozen people (photographers, journalists, authors, artists). This online magazine, like the quarterly paper NIEPCEBOOK born at the end of 2015, has as its objective showing and promoting contemporary photography, that which testifies to our present, that which is hardly shown, little or not published despite its quality whatever its origin in the world. Since 2016 CORRIDOR ÉLÉPHANT has also been a small publishing house dedicated to contemporary photography. It publishes books in participatory limited editions, numbered and signed by their authors.
