Loving Earth - PBF01 / Patrick Zachmann
18 November 2016 to 18 January 2017
Augusto Pinochet’s coup d’état on 11 September 1973 marked my generation. He represented the unacceptable: the victory of horror, barbarism, fascism. I went to Chile for the first time in 1998 and returned there regularly up to 2002. I met many victims or families of disappeared persons, and I discovered a country in a state of amnesia that stupefied me. I decided to move away from the world of actions, speech, testimonies, into that of signs and sediments where time had almost stopped. I did a series of panoramic landscapes, although people are what I usually like to photograph. I went to the arid desert in northern Chile, to try to find the marks of time and history, as fragile as an abandoned memory, whose markers appear or disappear with the sand and the wind.
