Nicolas Sanchez L.

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Works from 2005 to present. Photo series, videos, films and interventions

  1. Footprints in the Dust

    [2015-2018] Footprints in the Dust (as I was moving ahead I felt brief glimpses of beauty and terror) Only 12 men have set foot o… more

  2. Studies on the twilight (Scenes from two rivers)

    [2017] The Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region is the largest in Germany with over 11 million inhabitants spread around a web of cities… more

  3. Studies on the twilight (on an abandoned mine)

    [2018] It was called the white gold. By the late 19th century, the exploitation of nitrate was one of the most important industrie… more

  4. Nocturne II

    [2017] A portrait of night in Berlin. Analog photo, charcoal over Giclée print. At night, the usual structure of cities, with its… more

  5. Nocturne I

    [2016] Video Series. An ongoing portrait of night currently filmed in London, Berlin and Tehran. At night, the usual structure of… more

  6. Studies on the twilight (Big North, to Antofagasta)

    [2016] Studies on the twilight (Big North, to Antofagasta), is a tribute to the most hostile city I have been fortunate enough to… more

  7. Studies on the twilight (Cabinet of curiosities)

    [2015] It was called the white gold. By the late 19th century, the exploitation of nitrate was one of the most important industrie… more

  8. Studies on the twilight (Golden Birds)

    [2016] Quillagua was a fertile oasis along the Loa river, in the middle of the driest desert of the world, the Atacama. An indigen… more

  9. Atmospheres

    [2008-2017] 9 year record of horizon atmospheres photographed as triptychs or single images. Colourful ambiences arouse a reflecti… more

  10. Requiem for Bemba

    [2015] On september 2012 I was deported from the UK. While I was kept in the detaining room, I met Bemba. Two years later I went o… more

  11. We spin around the nights (Photo Series)

    [2013 - 2014] We spin around the nights. On Sunday evenings, during the winter months of 2012–13 I conducted nocturnal peregrinato… more

  12. We spin around the nights (Video Series)

    [2013-2014] While the city sleeps and the shadows cover everything, a few people plot their own revolutions, getting lost around t… more

  13. Tourists Trilogy (Video Series)

    [2013] A Trilogy of short films about Tourists being tourists in breathtaking landscapes. Each one as a threnodie -from the Greek… more

  14. Tourists Threnody (Photo Series)

    [2007-current] A photo series about tourists being tourists. Threnody -from the Greek threnos (wailing) and oide (ode)- is a seri… more

  15. Pop corn fields

    [2012] The industry is sold out. A film about films about corn fields. Curatorship by Marcelo Sarovic. In order of appearance: Chi… more

  16. Life is elsewhere

    A lyric documentary of a distant journey from Atacama Desert to Patagonia, carrying a camera and a tripod over the shoulders, from… more

  17. Noah's raft, (living off) the fat of the land

    [2011] The project consists in building a raft to navigate downstream the Mapocho river, since its channeled entrance into the cen… more

  18. Where are my dreams? (glow in the dark)

    [2012] A goodbye film to Santiago shot in the San Carlos canal. Tired and bored, our boredom grows, we carry it from work back to… more

  19. Me voy de la ciudad (aún no te he olvidao)

    [2009] A journey in Santiago de Chile, from its centre to the outskirts countryside, following the path of the power lines that fe… more

  20. Wild rosehip jam (slow food)

    [2008] A triggered remembering when I saw the rosehip fruit -common in south Chile and wildly present on Prague's outskirts- led t… more

  21. Algún lugar encontraré

    [2008] Collect industrial waste around the city, build something new, search for the lost territtory. Music by Alejandro Artigas more

  22. estacionamientos, vacíos

    [2008] A film made in the underground parking lots of shopping centres, minutes before their closing time. more

  23. Makeshift taps

    [2008] A 10 pages how-to manual for illegal hooking connections into a power line, a photo series from these hooks and the sabotag… more

  24. From Saler to Gran Turia

    [2008] A dérive carrying a trolley from one shopping center to another in the outskirts of Valencia, Spain more

  25. Bonjour M. Courbet

    [2007] A 1 day walking dérive in Valencia, Spain. A conversation on a casual encounter and a cover of Nowhere man by Camilo Artiga… more

  26. Untitled

    [2007] An abandoned factory near Valencia's coast, waiting to be demolished. An infinite loop of boredom. more

  27. Airports

    [2007-2019] The series was truncated after the discovery of the Airport series by Peter Fischli (b.1952) and David Weiss (1946-201… more