BOOK / RIVER OF FOOG. Tania Ximena

PHOTOGRAPHY / ART

River of Fog. The Becoming of the Jamapa River is a reflection in editorial format that arises from the hybrid documentary-fiction film River of Fog and the exhibition project River of Fog, Adobe River, Blood River, both by visual artist Tania Ximena Ruiz. This book compiles images from the various exhibition moments of the pieces that make up the exhibition's body of work, stills from the film and video installations, photographs from the various shoots, as well as authorial photographs by the cinematographers and collaborators. It also includes research archive material and excerpts from the film's script.

The core of these pages is composed of texts commissioned from people closely linked to the processes of both projects, who were invited to think and write original and autonomous works that flow and converge around the Jamapa glacier, the Jamapa River, its territory and basin, its ontologies, cosmogonies, and duels. It could be said that this book is just another piece of the entire project that the book itself contains; a process that emerged in 2015 at 5,200 meters above sea level on the Citlaltépetl volcano, where the Jamapa River is born from the melting of the Jamapa Glacier. It tumbles and meanders through canyons and plains, joining (and dividing into) tributaries until it meets the sea at Boca del Río, in the Gulf of Mexico.

Title: RÍO DE NIEBLA
Author: Tania Ximena
Pages: 208
Size: 20 x 25 cm
Weight: 900 grams
Genre: Photography
Language: Spanish / English
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Sexto Piso
Co-publishing: Efiartes
Year: 2024