Santiago “Chapo” Vivanco  
        Darkroom
Monthly 03
About
Cantera started in August 2024, when our landlord called to inform us that we needed to leave the apartment. Out of the blue, sometime in the months ahead, our family history would be wiped away from the house so that another could start in the same place. From that moment, I started to document the many things that had created an illusion of belonging and possession in a place that had never been ours: the paintings on the wall, the arrangement of furniture, the way the spaces are occupied, the emptiness of all elements as workers stripped the flooring.

Cantera aims to create a dialogue between the two predominant readings of the term household (readings that are mutually exclusive, opposed, and cannot be conceived in the presence of the other). The first reading views the house as property, as an asset for speculation and extraction. The second, the most familiar, conceives it in its purest definition as home and place we build to provide intimacy to a portion of the world where we soak up much of who we become.












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Cantera¹ 

Site from which rock, clay or other similar substances are extracted for

various works.


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Cantera²




Metaphorically, use for depth, source, root, and foundation in what refers to the mind and its operations: and thus, one who has good ingenuity, and who is known to be useful and profitable for some thing or things, is said to have a good quarry: Of discourse, poems, and prayers, which are well executed and composed, and whose author is unknown, are said to come from a good quarry: and so of other things.  1729 Diccionario de Autoridades


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Credits


Design:
Raquel Mullet

Edit and Sequence:

Daniel López y Santiago "Chapo" VivancoDarkroom:

Laboratorio Comunitario Contado PierdeScanning of Physical Prints:
Estudio MadrugadaPrint:
Sánchez Álamo Artesanos S.L.