Nevermind sovietland
Espagne
2018Jury Artist
By definition, an island makes us think of isolation. Tomeu Coll comes from an island. His work of information and investigation was born when he decided to try and understand the world from where he was standing, on an island. He felt the need to experiment new aspects of isolation. To do so, he went to Vorkuta, an abandoned city surrounded by ice, at 3000 km north of Moscow. You never really know where Vorkuta begins, as you never really know when the border with the Arctic circle will be crossed. To stay there means to accept living in an ostracised location that will never know human development and activity. Vorkuta was built by prisoners from the gulag and still cannot find its place within our history.
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About the artist
Tomeu Coll was born in Spain in 1981. His documentary work was awarded on several occasions and was shown in many institutions worldwide, such as the at Aperture Gallery and at the National Gallery in New York. He also received the prize of “Emerging photographer” from the Smithsonian Magazine for his project entitled Badlands. Tomeu Coll works with several journals and teaches photography workshops.