Unlimited Prints
Issue #0
Mr. Stupid
Ignacio Navas
Self-Published
Spanish
Text by Marta Echave
6 Loose Photographs and a booklet
32 Pages
300 x 400 mm
2021
ISBN Not available
This edition presents Mr. Stupid, a project that unravels the economic tensions around us economic tensions that surround us, in the form of a visual diary of an endearing character. The character takes his name from the famous phrase coined by James Carville, Bill Clinton’s campaign strategist in the 1992 campaign, “The economy, stupid”. This phrase is a creative myth, the origin of culture and of Mr. Stupid, the representation of any inhabitant of the western world, vulnerable to the ups and downs of the markets. This project explores the identities created by capital. As when, due to economic competition, renovation companies place their advertising stencils overlapping each other, covering the contact telephone numbers of rival companies. Small violences that define a culture. This editorial proposal seeks to recover the format and distribution style of the old engravings. To do so, it takes their most representative formal elements and interprets them from a contemporary perspective, creating an edition of unlimited copies, printed by tritone with stochastic screening, at an affordable and democratic price.
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About the Series
Unlimited Prints is a new format that is committed to distributing original, non-serialised photographic work. Each box includes six 30×40 cm photographs by one author and a 32-page narrative work written by another leading figure.
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About the Artist
Ignacio Navas (b. 1989, Tudela, Spain) is a photographer based in Madrid. In his work, he researches into the social, political and economical structures through everyday affairs. With this commitment, he creates narrative bodyworks that end up self-published in several formats. On each project, Navas shifts his approach to his subjects. The starting point for ‘El Norte’ were family anecdotes, life in postwar Spain -which his grandmother Sagrario told him- as well as a revision of national identity. The daily, normal, and close events also abound in ‘Linde’ where he explores the outskirts of Madrid, his host city. But perhaps ‘Yolanda’ is his most personal proposal: the reconstruction of an era and a generation through the love story of his aunt. Here, the photographer uses family pictures and short memories to dig into the powerful emotions of youthfulness. ‘Mr. Stupid’ is his latest project, a visual investigation of the identities created by market forces. In this work, Navas steps away from his past documentary language by using photogrammetry to showcase the reality of a charming character. This project also started another adventure: ‘Unlimited Prints’ a new humble format to distribute photographic prints.
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