Your name
Curro Rodriguez Sanchez
Place of birth
Cordoba, Spain
Place where you live now
Reykjavik, Iceland
3 words to describe you
Honest, intense, natural
Why do you take pictures?
I take pictures to have a document. I take pictures to materialize my own idea of the world, of feelings. I do photography to express things that I cannot express in another way. A huge part of my artwork is based in performative interventions. Photography catches expressions forever, in my opinion it’s better than video, and those captures can have differents meanings.
Where do you get your inspiration?
My inspiration comes from a single stone, a mountain, a song. My work is related with Flamenco, an ancient folk music from Andalusia, in the south of Spain, all the sounds and lyrics are about death, deep feelings, or The Earth and our relationship with it. Flamenco is like a mineral, that sounds like a rock cracking. Performative arts are always driving me to different places, mind states , and inspire me on a different level than any other thing.
Who are your influences?
Ana Mendieta, Enrique Morente, Ben Frost, Dimitris Papaioannou, Jose Davila, Ernesto Artillo, Tony Cragg, MIlena Naef, Marina Abramovic, Isabel Do Diego... and more.
What determines the subject matter you choose?
I really like to walk the dividing line between the acquired and the found, between the thought and the dreamed, duality that is always in the intermediate zones, where nothing happens until it happens, always slowly and almost invisibly. Wrapping up with the coverage of the atavistic and the ancestral in an innate way is nothing more than letting out that brutalist aspect, and at the same time the uncomfortable, in front of the conditioning for facilitating the path, the molded. The scream, the lip of the battered rock, the drift to which the pain is directed, and the smell that is perceived when it dissipates. These are the branches where what I do and what I am looking for are sustained
What impact would you like your art to have?
Even if my idea is not related to art activism, in some way, I would love to change people's minds, and change their relationship with nature, landscape, and body. Look back to our roots as human beings, as animals, look back to our connection with the environment, the landscape, the natural matter. Understand how our acts affect all around us, even a single photo has an effect.
What artwork do you never get bored with?
I think, as human beings, we grow up in all directions, and we evolve. Maybe getting bored is not the word for me. I guess artworks that I was really interested in a long time ago are not interesting anymore, for me. So, that means that something is changing in you. Nothing is forever.
Is there anything you want to add?
All good

Saeta
Project statement

The sound of air cutting as a stone moves, at high speed, thrown with all your force. The scream that escapes after the sudden impact of a projectile on your chest or an unexpected wedge of rock imprisons your hand. The first voice, the first stone, the first tool. The vernacular expression of being as an entity
 against nature, against life, against pain. 
It is the primitive lament that bruises the throat when it comes out excessively when the body unfolds and finds itself in front of itself, being an offering and executioner, altar and priest, stone and blood.

By passing the divine in the grandeur of creation and bringing it to the surface, turning prayer into rock, words into dust, and pain into prayer, thereby closing the human/superhuman duality, and the language/voice/image trinity.

With Saeta I'm working with pagan customs and rituals, finding it in nature, in a kind of archaeological way. Finding divinity in stones, returning to the Stone Age. Recreating burial offers or other rituals, sometimes as a divinity, sometimes like a rock. 

See more by Curro Rodriguez in A Visual Dialogue in issue #6 and in collab:co-op in issue #9

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