All Eyes On: Sergio Bretel

About

Sergio Bretel is a multidisciplinary artist focused on exploration of new forms of visual narratives, studying the conceptual limits between contemporary art and traditional photography, using experimental techniques and processes. His works have been exhibited internationally since 2009, including the 53rd Venice Biennale collective photography exhibition and Buenos Aires Photo 2014, and can be found in private and public collections worldwide.

“My work is based on temporality, incidence, memory and meaning; where objects and
subjects possess cultural value and a symbolic charge, acting as mediators that
affect our perception, permanence, resistance, and existence.”

Ñatitas

In Bolivia there is a tradition of making a pact of mutual protection between a person and a human skull. Every 8th of November is the day of the “Ñatitas” in La Paz Bolivia when these Human Skulls are taken to the General Cemetery where people can ask them for favours through prayers and offerings of wreaths of flowers, cigarettes and coca leaves. In some cases the cult is with skulls of children and babies.

ÑATITA Child, 05, 2016
Photography, 150 x 100 cm
(from the series: Ñatitas – Retratos Inertes de Rostros Olvidados)

ÑATITA “LUPITA”, 16, 2014
Photography, 150 x 100 cm
(from the series: Ñatitas – Retratos Inertes de Rostros Olvidados)

ÑATITA 15, 2015
Photography, 150 x 100 cm
(from the series: Ñatitas – Retratos Inertes de Rostros Olvidados)

ÑATITA MARTIN, 2016
Photography, 150 x 100 cm
(from the series: Ñatitas – Retratos Inertes de Rostros Olvidados)

ÑATITA Child 01, 2014
Photography, 150 x 100 cm
(from the series: Ñatitas – Retratos Inertes de Rostros Olvidados)

Get in touch
with Sergio

Homepage: Sergio Bretel
Instagram: @sergiobretel

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