THE ARTISTIC CONCERNS

LONG-TERM PROJECTS

These are projects that have marked the life of Pablo Corral Vega. “Paisajes del Silencio” was the book he created during his career as a lawyer in the late 1980s. He would escape to the mountains on weekends and slowly photograph with his tripod and Hasselblad camera. This was his way of rebelling against the logical and rational world of law. He dedicated more than five years of his life to “Andes,” which was published by National Geographic in both their magazine and a book, for which Mario Vargas Llosa wrote twenty short stories. He began “Tango” in the year 2000 as a project for Nat Geo, and since then, it has become an obsession: he continues to document the night of Buenos Aires whenever he can. “Jardines Silvestres” is a project that Pablo Corral Vega created to heal after the death of a beloved person, and he continues to work on it. Through this project, he fell in love with nature again.

My Garden in the Wilds

This book is a personal, an extremely personal, portrait of Ecuador, of my country, of my homeland. I have traveled its roads in an attempt to find healing following the death of Carolina, trying to find a formula for converting grief into beauty.

Tango

Nostalgia and sensuality need one another and nourish one another. It’s a virtuous circle: to overcome nostalgia one must declare the triumph of the senses, assert the concrete importance of the here and now.

The Andes

When you climb up to those peaks, far off in the distance you see mountains that are even higher yet — mountains surrounded by dark forests, terrible and mysterious mountains impossible to climb.

Landscapes of Silence

This is a project I began in 1985. Every weekend I would drive out to the mountain. On those trips, I grew to know the wind. The wind is the voice of the mountain.