ENTREMUROS

 Becoming a nosy person sounds easy, however, practicing it in an optimum way takes great effort: an insatiable hunger for curiosity, an objective look, and a seductive distance. A nosy person who goes into people’s houses, their past, and other people ́s stories. All this culminating in a project called “EntreMuros”. By looking at the compilation of these photos, you ́ll be inevitably led to the following question: What is Bernardo Aja looking for? Curiosity may be the most evident engine in this, but it is clear that there is something else. The theatrically way in which characters and locations are chosen, gives us the guidelines to not only find the history captured in it, but the history of Bernardo himself.

Between Walls is a compilation of pictures that leads us to two temporalities, actual families that keep the essence of past centuries, combining contemporary aesthetics and some remains of the XIX and XX centuries.

The existing relation between the characters and their privacy reveals the importance of inheritance, will, loss; the register of a generation that is lost between two lives, two walls. Characters that stay insurgents to what has been established and collect useless objects that help them fulfill their lives in the present, a placebo that keeps them immersed in a momentary reality, a life that makes sense based on the profoundness of their own illusion

The feeling that joins each of these stories and the trigger that strikes Bernardo ́s curiosity. The feeling of reminiscence and sadness. Picturing grief, sorrow, what was left behind. The anxiety that they might have not suffered in flesh but passed on. Everything that harbors such stories in between the walls.

Bernardo is not impressed with these social classes, instead, he interacts with them, meddles in their lives and fears. This interfering breaks the logic of Photography, creating theatrical and cinematographic situations that show more than the simple register, an “in media res” literary beginning, an exact moment that shows a secret.

These vulnerable characters are the bait that keeps Bernardo behind the lens. The camera lets him satisfy a quest that goes beyond his pictures; it lets him find sense to his own concerns.

“EntreMuros” is that thin crack line that the voyeur utilizes to watch others, turning Bernardo Aja into a Peeping Tom.