Daniel Reuter, Providencia

Providencia

Daniel Reuter

Publisher
Skinnerboox
Year
2020
ISBN
978-88-94895-35-3
Specifications
Softcover Swiss binding
20.7 x 28 cm
112 pages
700 copies
Edited and sequenced by Milo Montelli
Design by Federico Carpani
Text by Alejandro Zambra
Co-published with Lët'z Arles and CNA

Providencia — providence — in its biblical meaning, describes God's intervention in the universe, an influence beyond human control. The Providencia neighbourhood of Santiago de Chile provides both setting and title for this new series by Daniel Reuter. Architectural details, glass reflections, makeshift structures, barricades that obstruct the view. Figures appear, the reiteration of a narrator, or characters living within a fractured narrative. Reuter's Providencia describes a place locked between a complicated past and an uncertain future. Beneath a surface layer of the quotidian, we sense the last big wave of western aspirations crashing down, conjuring the dreams and disenchantment of a world in upheaval.

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