William Fernando Aparicio

Codificado Microfilms

Year: 2013
Edition: 3+2
Technique: photography
Dimensions: 50 × 23 cm / 19.7 × 9.1 in
Price: €650

The National Library of Colombia is a central place for William Aparicio. Through this work, he was able to travel through time, tracing the historical and cultural roots of his country.
In 2013, he explored the archive both physically and digitally, immersing himself in rooms, books, and online databases. He transformed the library into a visual laboratory, where the scanner becomes a tool for reflecting on contemporary hypervisuality.

In this work, Aparicio starts from 9 April 1948 — a crucial date in Colombian history — to reconstruct half a century of history through the archives of the country’s leading newspapers.
A single film strip contains fifty years of memory, compressed and fragmented. The endless strips of the print dissolve before the imposing archive of the library.

Pausa Intercrónica, together with the title Codificado Microfilms, reflects on the concept of the database as a metaphor for modern memory: a form of memory increasingly entrusted to digital devices, which shape the collective and individual identity of our time.

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