CV119 - Carlos Ferrand Zavala, Resistencia — Alexis Desgagnés
Ciel variable 119 - Against Nature (Winter 2022)
Exhibitions (Single Article, Digital Version)
Carlos Ferrand Zavala, Resistencia. Perú, 1970–1975
By Alexis Desgagnés
Carlos Ferrand Zavala is best known for his film documentaries; he was previously a photographer. The exhibition Resistencia. Perú, 1970–1975, reviewed here by Alexis Desgagnés, unearthed what he had produced in his native Peru – a group of photographs and films produced in the early 1970s as the country began a vast agrarian reform. “His social concerns ... [foretold] ... later developments in his approach,” writes Desgagnés. Ferrand’s humanist vision was manifested through images of the alternative economy, living conditions among the poor, and even, in a rare fictional narrative, “a resolutely anti-colonial position.” Desgagnés notes that the exhibition both helped to bring Ferrand’s photographic work to recognition and was coherent with the historical perspectives of curator Zoë Tousignant’s preceding projects.
Details
Language : English & French
Digital Version : PDF, 1.2 Mb
Bibliographical Notice
Alexis Desgagnés, “Carlos Ferrand Zavala, Resistencia. Perú, 1970 – 1975” in Ciel variable, No. 119, Montreal, 2022, p. 89-90.