Title: The Lightness of Being
Photographer/s: Alinka Echeverria
Date of publication: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Dimensions: 7”x9”
Edition size: 30
Type of binding: none
Type of paper: Photographic paper
Type of printing: Ink jet pigment printing
Printer: Epson 4200
Publisher: Self-published
Designer: Carlton DeWoody
Category: artist book
Price: $100
Summary: The Lightness of Being 2008 – photographs and video
This work is an exploration of water as an environment and of human perception of movement. As the sole underwater spectator, the ceremonies of synchronized swimming practices became for me a tableau vivant rich in symbolism; a metaphor for liberation from earthly constraints and emancipation from physical and psychological barriers. Usually hidden from view, the underwater motion captured in my images challenge our perception of human movement, and symbolically, of human capacity. The swimmers’ discipline and experience underwater are an investigation of the laws of physics, they dominate this other world by understanding their relationship to this element and embracing its hostility, thereby overcoming it and giving way to the wonders of buoyancy and healing. This seeming contradiction is ever present in humanity’s relationship to water and representative of the tension between life and death that defines our existence as human beings.
Date and place of birth of photographer/s: 11/07/81 Mexico City
Website: http://www.alinkaecheverria.com/
Book link: http://www.alinkaecheverria.com/
Donated by: Alinka Echeverria
iPL Notes: This book was donated at the Flash Forward Festival, Toronto, October 6-10, 2010.
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