Your name
Christopher Wilstermann
Place of birth
Cochabamba, Bolivia
Place where you live now
Cochabamba, Bolivia
3 words to describe you
Otro. Manifestante. Irracional. 
Why do you take pictures?
I take pictures to observe, to have fun, to imagine.
Where do you get your inspiration?
My inspiration comes from everyday life, from dreams, from chance, from conversations, from art, but mostly from boredom.
Who are your influences?
Richard David James, Alejando Jodorowsky, David Lynch, Brian De Palma, Ana Mendieta, Alfredo Jaar, Ed Ruscha, Anna Atkins, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, Nobuyoshi Araki, Margarito dela Guetto among others.
What determines the subject matter you choose?
My interests, my context, what I think and believe in a certain moment.
What impact would you like your art to have?
I hope that the images that I make can awaken the imagination of those who see them, nothing more.
What artwork do you never get bored with?
I never get bored of Scarface.
Is there anything you want to add?
Maybe

Sobre / Máscara
Project statement

Sobre/Máscara starts from the discussion about identity, but refuses to refer to it from an entirely theoretical zeal. Wilstermann's masks, although they fulfill their role of hiding the apparent faces of the characters in the photographs, are adorned with paraphernalia full of humor that constitute an identity in itself, as if the black balaclava loaded with political readings, had become a portrait to be embellished and identified, not from the traditional canons, but from another place, a new one in which the others live.

Text by: Douglas Rodrigo Rada

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