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Impius

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Mauricio Toro Goya uses the old photographic technique of ambrotype to appropriate and reinvent images of colonial female catholic icons. Impius, the last Toro-Goya photobook, is the author's first publication edited and designed abroad. The book is a photographic series that is based on the capital transgressions of the human being and these guide the construction of the scenes, which are a critique of Chilean and North American society, its economic model, its relationship with the different immigrant groups, classes socio-economic and new socio-cultural scenarios. The photographic project was completed in 2017, after three years of production in which more than 400 people worked, and had the support of FONDART. "IMPIUS presents autobiographical, affective, violent and disturbing images that enunciating, through multiple symbols in collision, the contradictions of Latin American cultures and their conceptual figuration with regard to modernity. Through multiple political and religious imaginaries such as the Hispanic colonial, the legitimacy elements that contributed to creating a sense of belonging to imagined communities in the inhabitants of a territory such as Latin America are questioned." --publisher

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