Juan Brenner, FERVOR

FERVOR

Juan Brenner

Publisher
RM
Year
2025
ISBN
9791399053661
Specifications
Hardcover, sewn binding
18.5 × 24cm
144 pages
98 images
Texts by Andrea Orejas
Design by Gisela de Bruijn
English

FERVOR , by Juan Brenner, is a photographic essay that explores desire as a vital force within the Guatemalan highlands, a region marked by historical violence and complex power dynamics. Brenner poetically captures how devotional practices, everyday life, and digital culture intertwine, using the figure of San Simón to reflect on resistance and transformation. San Simón, an enigmatic mediator between the sacred and the profane, embodies the tensions and possibilities that emerge from these intersections. His capacity for adaptation, bridging ancestral rituals and contemporary technologies, challenges hegemonic narratives and reveals new ways of understanding identity and power. Amid rituals livestreamed on TikTok, altars lined with Marlboro cigarettes, and embroidered Tz’utujil textiles, his cult reveals a living, fluid identity that is digital, punk, feminist, and spiritual at once. E xplores how desire continually shapes and reshapes life within the fractures of history, inviting reflection on the forces that sustain resilience, identity, and transformation. In an age defined by spiritual fatigue and digital excess, FERVOR points toward a renewed sense of meaning, revealing how faith, beauty, and desire remain vital acts of resistance.

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