Oro parece, plata no es …
Author: Carlos León Zambrano
Publisher: Materialverlag - HFBK, Hamburg
Language: Spanish, German, English
Pages: 336
Size: 25.7x18cm
Weight:
628 g
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9783944954622
Availability:
In stock
Price:
€42.00
Product Description
Known as a third world paradise, it is located in the center of the Caribbean Sea, red zone. Venezuela is now a country without rules, where the absurd reigns. It is marked by banality, failure, decadence, violence, immorality and decay, by sarcasm, lies, smuggling, calculation and liveliness. All of this has become part of modern folklore. What happens there today may be different tomorrow. Another story, unknown, a secret, something else. A society that suffers from extreme living conditions. The eternal dilemma of lack of prospects has led to a desperate state in which everyone becomes a perpetrator, in which hunger justifies theft. A state in which everyone only thinks of the here and now, and everything else seems like a mere deviation.
The surprise of popular culture shines through and manifests itself in the pictorial puzzles of everyday improvisation. Curiosity, humor, lies, deception, the special things and the indecipherable are ingredients of everyday survival strategies. A country full of camouflaged truths, whose anecdotes are only told in secret, where secrecy is a weapon that will help you sooner or later. Laying false trails is something like a national sport. From childhood, society teaches you that doubt is a constant companion, to be attentive and always keep your distance from what lies ahead. To imagine different scenarios in order to consider different options and reactions to a possible encounter. It ensnares you with its paranoia, hypnotizes you, forces you to be part of the omnipresent corruption, directly or indirectly. To have multiple perspectives on ourselves and on immediate reality. Any similarity to this fiction that occurs is pure coincidence.
This book is a dedication to a social reality that surrounds us and makes us part of the current social order. It attempts to create a metaphorical bridge or cultural link, to expose a society in permanent turmoil, almost to the point of total collapse, and to lay bare its language and its fascinatingly arbitrary face.