Rodrigo Gomez Rovira — ANVERS 1996 VALPARAISO
Exhibition from June 1 to September 30, 2023
Enclos du phare – Location 13
2 Rue de la Pointe, 29730 Treffiagat
Free entrance
After more than 20 years of exile in France, Rodrigo Gomez Rovira embarked in 1996 for 45 days of crossing on a Polish cargo ship to reach Chile. He then takes his first photographs of his native country, and settles there.
“At the beginning of the 90s I was working in the town of Colombes, near Paris, I was the municipal photographer. My parents and brothers had returned to Chile six years earlier, when democracy was restored.
It was very strange to be Chilean in France without knowing Chile.
I only knew my country through the stories my adults told me. So my desire to go and live in Chile grew. That’s when the idea came to me to leave by boat for Chile.”
– Rodrigo Gomez Rovira
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