Carlos Franco-Ruiz

The space between

This series focuses on the feeling of statelessness. The work seek to be a representation of the here/there/anywhere in which my subject/reference is not tied to any place.

Neutered in the vastness

Image 50cm x 50cm
Canvas 70cm x 70cm
Oil 2018

On this alabaster cold

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Canvas 70cm x 70cm
Oil 2019

Smuggled in their faith

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Canvas 70cm x 70cm
Oil 2019

The reflection of your enamel

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Canvas 70cm x 70cm
Oil 2019

A double in search of a lost other

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Canvas 170cm x1 70cm
Oil 2019

Inertia kisses those around me

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Canvas 70cm x 70cm
Oil 2019

For the valley of mules

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Canvas 70cm x 70cm
Oil 2019

Revenant were the statues

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Canvas 70cm x 70cm
Oil 2019

They paved my memories complacent

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Canvas 70cm x 70cm
Oil 2019

Espacio sin memoria

This series is entitled "Space without Memory" reflects the culmination of my research into mundane spaces that the layman can easily forget. The work creates a dialogue that confronts the idea of memory of a territory and its permanence in our collective memory. Memory itself is fragile as we forget the details of our daily environment, but I look for these lost moments, registering them in my own image bank.

For this project, I found the words of Nietzsche comforting when describing my own environment in Uruguay.

"Some people are so accustomed to being alone with themselves that they never compare themselves to others, but they spin their monologue of a life with a calm and cheerful mood, keeping good conversations with themselves, even laughing." -Friedrich Nietzsche

This series establishes to bring the vision of a disappearing Uruguayan landscape to the exhibition space. At the center of this investigation is the exploration of ephemeral spaces that inhabit our life everyday from abandoned buildings to broken shutters, possibly insignificant but reveal moments of great loneliness. "