Aya

Following the path of Charles Kroehle, a pioneering nineteenth-century photographer who supposedly disappeared in the Peruvian Amazon, Arguiñe Escandón and Yann Gross describe an unreal immersion into the dense jungle vegetation, structured by shamanic experiences, and develop a process of organic photography. Using both ancient and contemporary images, Aya offers a dialogue between the representation of exoticism and one's own sensory experience. Advancing in the narrative, the investigation becomes a ghostly quest, an experience in which one gets lost, without maintaining the distance of observation.