Bert Danckaert

Aulas

Matanna Editions  #  6

€ 50.00    (book + print)

€ 100.00  (book + print in HALBE Distance Frame, format A4)

 

The images of classrooms in Havana are part of the larger project El Jardín de los Cerezos (2017–2024). The work is divided into three themes: Templos, Aulas, and Teatros (churches, classrooms, and cinemas). 
The project is grounded in the realism of theatre and its direct relationship with photography; both are constructions of reality. These spaces function as sites where ‘grand narratives’ are produced and disseminated. Moral and social principles are conveyed here, always with the risk of slipping into indoctrination and control.   
Each space also relates to theatre: priests perform religious texts, teachers act in front of the classroom, and cinemas are literal theatre halls where stories are constructed and projected into the black box of the room. As in the camera obscura, this projection of reality enables image, meaning, and deception alike.

 

 

PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS

Edition of 150 copies.

48 pages, 30 color images.
Hardcover.
Book size: 17,5 x 24,5 cm
ISBN 97890 8094 4657

Book comes with a photograph, signed by author.
Archival Pigment Print on Fine Art Paper by Innova
Print size:  13,7 x 18,5 cm