THE ARTIST
Fernando Montiel Klint (Ciudad de México, 1978) studied photography at la Escuela Activa de Fotografía and Centro de la Imagen. His work is part of collections such as the Guangdong Art Museum in China; Kenyérgyár Siofok 320, in Hungary; Museum of photographic arts SD MOPA, in U.S.A; Museum of Contemporary Art, in Chile; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, in France; Nave Ka, in Spain; Fototeca Nacional, Pinacoteca de Concepción, in Chile; The Wittliff Collection, Texas State University, U.S.A; Televisa Collection, in Mexico; Collection Les Recontres d’Árles, in France. Recently Obtained has been selected with the Dystopia project at Verzasca Foto Festival, Switzerland 2021, Athens Photo Festival, Greece. 2020, Invited for Photofairs Shanghai 2021, China 3 Place on the PH Museum, London, 2019 and has an Individual exhibition Dystopia at Centro Fotográfico de Montevideo, Uruguay 2019, and Santiago, Chile at Flach Galería 2019 on the exhibition Stand Point in Odessa, Ukraine 2019, itinerance in Ukraine.
His work has been shown individually internationally, like Recontres d’Árles, 2011, France, at the San Antonio Museum of Art (2010), at U.S.A, countries like New Zealand, Australia, Spain, Ukraine, Argentina, Colombia and México, Collective exhibitions around the world like India, Korea, Germany, Singapore, England, Italy, China, Argentina, Chile, Brasil, My work refers to state of hypermodernity, full of contradictions, reflections about the transition to the post human, what will be the new forms of behavior, induced by technology, the paradigms that will present us, when we are living the change generated by the digital before current paradigms, condemned to multi screens so behaviors defined communication platforms, we stop recognizing ourselves and getting to know each other organically. He has given workshops in Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador and Mexico. He is co-director of Klint and Photo. www.klintandphoto.net, Member of the National System of Creators Mexico.
THE WORK
Dystopia refers to anti-utopia, where the promise of modernity to improve the quality of life of man happens to take the form, rather than a hypermodernity (Lipovetsky), full of contradictions. Reflections about the transition to the posthuman, what will be the new forms of behavior, induced by technology, in the search to overcome the limitations, intellectuals, and physicist of the human being through the technological control of their own biological evolution in which the natural transcendence of humanity is already mastered. The panoptic as a symptom that lost its privacy, where the paradigms of what we consider today as glimpses of the futures: food, cybernetic devices, manipulation of the DNA, the search for new territories for future migrations. The paradigms that will present us, when we are living the change generated by the digital before current paradigms, condemned to multi-screens so behaviors defined communication platforms, we stop recognizing ourselves and getting to know each other organically.