Huancor, 17h, apparition des images

2024

31 black and white silver prints on Ilford Multigrade FB Warmtone baryta paper.

39 x 25,3 cm each

A series of 31 silver-print photos entitled Huancor, 17h, apparition des images (Huancor, 5 pm, appearance of images, 2024), retraces the artist’s passage through the rocky landscape of the Huancor archaeological site in the southern Peruvian Andes. These images, taken, Beltrame explains, in the uncertain light of at twilight, capture, in a single shot, the moment when the light washes over the rocks, thus making visible the ancient petroglyphs like a palimpsest on the stone surfaces carved over a very long period of time. Birds, mammals, reptiles, humans and other, more indeterminate creatures and stylized elements of the Andean cosmology adorn this rocky landscape in the middle of a desert.