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House full of time
Mateo Ruiz González


Reclaimed wood book box
12x16"
Archival pigment prints on 8.5x11" and 13x19"
Paper stocks:
150gsm Awagami Konzo Natural Paper
150gsm Awagami Konzo White Paper
290gsm Hahnemuhle Bamboo Natural White
Dark green book cloth back cover



Book made during the Penumbra Foundation Long Term Program: The Photobook, for a Federico Clavarino assigment. The images in the sequence -- originally made with a 4x5 field camera -- belong to a bigger body of work from the artist titled Flowers of Friendship, and are the result of a "frame within the frame" excercise. The original photographs were printed on bamboo paper and placed on a light box, later covered with a Japanese Kozo paper to then be photographed again. The wooden structure represents the artist house as a creative and safe space for his practice.


Text by Gui.tar. House full of time from their album Sunkissed


Edition of 1 / Published in 2024





























Mateo Ruiz Gonzalez is a lens-based artist and researcher from Bogota, Colombia. His work traverses the paths of documentary, fiction and fine art, capturing tensions between present realities and memory. Through his interest in cultural beliefs variables -- myth and non fiction --  his practice explores settings of  human behavior and its emotional nexus with the land, and how time alters the relations between the two. With a background in Fine and Printed Arts, Mateo envisions his works to find a physical form through which the imagery becomes a document for study.




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