100 SURREAL STREET PHOTOGRAPHS - B&W

If narration is one of the important ingredients of meaningful
photography, then the short stories created instantly by Stela
are photography's response to the neorealist cinema of
nowadays, as well as to the socialist realism of the seventies,
which both needed very long scenes to convey a message of
doubtful impact. Aesthetic overdose leading to anaesthesia.
Two or even three hours of mute film rolling to arrive from the
gun to the rose, from the subhuman chaos to the ruler's order.
Movie directors are very close to dictating (reading on our
behalf) after all.
Just switch on the antonyms, the opposite notions, of the
above and you will have the honest, unforced and poetic
revelation of the eternal moments created by Stela: her version
of a surrounding world which evolves too fast to be
understood and to create empathy. Her still images do exactly
that: they dilate time for us to be able to overcome our
handicap of visual anaesthesia (even blindness in my case)
and to empathise with a depleted action, a low-adrenaline
universe which will not make it to the news but it will make our
days.
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