Altered States

source: franciscoreina

Un mínimo de verdad es indispensable para justificar una información. Decir la verdad es a menudo muy difícil y mentir por omisión puede hacernos culpables de ocultar la verdad.

Manipular es presentar lo falso como verdadero, negativo como positivo, lo degradante como beneficioso. En cualquier sociedad se da una general apetencia hacia dos objetos: el poder económico y el poder político. Ambas formas de poder, cuando se absolutizan, utilizan la manipulación para convertir a las personas en súbditos o en consumidores, en posibles votantes o compradores. Algunas estrategias políticas y comerciales no son ajenas a esta manipulación. Se preocupan de suministrar a la sociedad la dosis de sensualidad suficiente para mantener despierta la sensibilidad animal de los ciudadanos. La forma más clara de manipulación es la mentira.

La sociedad actual en la que vive el ser humano no existiría si las personas no tuvieran confianza recíproca. El lenguaje manipulado, puede ser recibido con confianza y buena fe, y conduce
a las personas no según la verdad sino según las intenciones del manipulador, por lo que toda manipulación es una mentira al servicio del afán de dominio sobre los demás.

Por eso el cuadro del mundo que se presenta a la gente no tiene la mas minima relación con la realidad, ya que la verdad sobre cada asunto queda enterrada sobre montañas de mentira. Se ha alcanzado un éxito extraordinario en el sentido de disuadir las amenazas democráticas, y lo realmente interesante es que ello se ha producido en condiciones de libertad. “De todas las ilusiones la mas peligrosa consiste en pensar que no existe sino una sola realidad”
Paul Watzlawick
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source: franciscoreina

A minimum amount of truth is necessary to justify the communication of any kind of information. To tell the truth is often very difficult and even when a lie is told by omission of certain information can result in an accusation of being guilty of hiding the truth.
Additionally, manipulation can be defined as the act of representing something false as real, a negative as positive, a degradation as beneficial.

In every society there is a general need to achieve both economic and political power and when these two forces come together to rule the State, manipulation is implemented to turn people into subjects, potential voters or consumers. Some of the political and commercial strategies are very familiar with this strategy of manipulation and are constantly focused on supplying society with enough sensuality to keep the citizens´ animal sensitivity alive. The most well known form of manipulation is lie.

Current society would not exist if people did not have reciprocal trust. Manipulated language can be received with confidence and good faith and eventually people may be guided not by the truth, but by the manipulator´s intentions. Therefore, each of these manipulations is a lie servicing the social realm.
The picture of the world that is constantly being shown to us has nothing to do with reality because the truth about every single event is buried under a mountain of lies. This system has reached extraordinary success at creating a dissuasion from the menace of democracy and what is really interesting is that this has been achieved under the banner of “freedom”.

“From all illusions the most dangerous one consists in thinking that there is only one reality”
Paul Watzlawick
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source: franciscoreinaseeme

My artwork takes a critical view of social, political and cultural issues, often referencing what surrounds me or draws my attention. The medium I use is photography and I develop my projects using digital techniques.

The image is the centre of my work. It is not, however, an icon. It is rather a depiction that is constantly filtered through my own experience and personal view of the world, and repeatedly called into question as a material and emotional entity, as both presence and memory.

Each project primarily consists of a range of different images that are grouped around specific themes and meanings. During research and production, new areas of interest arise and lead me to my next body of work.

My projects reflect a concern with the progressive construction of social reality by the media, discernible not only in the increasing importance of the image, but also in the gradual incorporation of the “simulated world” into different realms of daily life, such as politics and culture. The critical realism of my work is generated from these reflections and I achieve it by transforming them into metaphors.

I make images that present views of contemporary life exclusive to the present moment; the result of modern, social and global concerns. My interest here focuses on the average human being’s experience and interaction with power in everyday life. I strive to create a visual manifestation of an internal resistance against these restraints, and the resulting work forms a muted acknowledgement of its existence.
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source: tickalampo

Conheça o mais recente trabalho do fotografo Francisco Reina.

Chama-se “Altered States“. É uma série de fotografias manipuladas com um ar negativo, e degradado.

Reina mostrou a sua opinião dizendo: “A imagem que as pessoas têm sobre o mundo para mim não têm nada a ver com a realidade, porque a verdade sobre cada evento é enterrado sob uma montanha de mentiras.”
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source: zeutch

Francisco Reina nous livre ici une série symbole de la manipulation et du mensonge. Une vérité voilée d’un rouge sang à découvrir dans la suite.
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source: gamberraes

Francisco Reina juega en esta serie ‘Altered States’ con el concepto de mentira y manipulación. Entendiendo manipulación como la forma de representar lo que es falso de la forma más realista posible o lo que es malo como algo intrínsecamente bueno. El resultado es una interesante serie, con una gama cromática que inevitablemente nos recordará a los paisajes infrarrojos de Richard Moose.