Rafael Blando Torres

Rafael Blando is an artist that for the past twelve years has visited and photographed more than 30 countries. Nowadays he explores the visual language trough appropriation & re-contextualization of diverse objects found around journeys and flea markets. He uses photography and a commercial scanner…

I’m currently interested in the construction of the image and the latency of its meaning. I find special interest in concepts like national identity and collective memory and how both relate within hegemonic discourses present in the iconography of what we use as an exchange value. Besides photograp…

• “Waste sedimentation” for Fotoseptember of Center of the Image at Gomez Palacio Cultural Center in Gomez Palacio, Mexico (2022) - Collective Show • “Tijuana Triennial: I. Pictoric International Art” at Cultural Center Tijuana (CECUT) in Tijuana, Mexico (2021) - Collective Show • “Limitrofe, betwee…