Yurian Quintanas Nobel
‘Dream Moons’
by Yurian Quintanas Nobel, published by Void.
“My house looked like a maze, a tenebrous shelter where nobody could enter […]. I walked through its corridors and up and down the stairs, but I couldn’t reach the exit. Darkness everywhere.”
Yurian Quintanas Nobel
Dream Moons
‘Dreams Moons’ is a story in the first person. It mixes photography and text to tell on a journey through a bizarre dream. It takes place within the corridors and rooms of the artist's house.
After a few years working on territories and outsiders, Yurian Quintanas Nobel set himself the challenge of photographing his closest environment.
To make this work he imposed a single rule: all the photographs had to be done within the limits of his house. From this single guideline, he began to photograph the spaces, domestic objects, and the inhabitants of this home. Though, he went further. To tell not only the concrete experience. But the transformation of all the palpable reality, into what we do not see.
The first images of this project are from 2015. And they are in total line with 2020’s new zeitgeist: the lockdowns. Produced 5 years before we started to think about how life is restricted within the space of our own homes, ‘Dream Moons’ gets a new and unexpected layer.
The book shows the home as a psychological space where everything can happen. How, in relationships, people can disassemble and transform the world of each other. There is no warmth and no protection within the walls of this imaginary place. Every corner leads us to a new experience that we must face up without knowing how. In this journey, everything is strange and unstable. All we know falls apart, leaving us dwelling in a different reality even without being aware of it.
Dream Moons
23,3 x 30,4 cm
96 pages
Limited Edition of 500 copies
Silkscreen softcover
ISBN 978-618-5479-02-2
Yurian Quintanas Nobel
Born in Amsterdam (1983), grew and based in Catalonia. Yurian develops his personal photographic projects focused on the people, the natural environment and his own surroundings. Playing with the limits of reality and fiction. He uses photography to approach the intangible, the hidden side, and explore its mysteries.
Nobel is the winner of the Vanguardia Magazine (2007) 1st prize, Photoespaña Discoveries selection (2011), SFR Jeunes Talents awards for ParisPhoto (2014), the Open Call award of the Encontros da Imagem (2015), and the selection as LensCulture Emerging Talent (2018).
‘Dream Moons’, published in 2020 by Void is the artist’s 4th book.
Featured in
-
Buy ‘Dream Moons’ by Yurian Quintanas Nobel now.
Listen to the ‘Dream Moons’ playlist on Spotify.
-
✳︎ Selected for the ‘Demons’ Exhibition at Charta Festival, Roma 2021
Photo-Eye – Best Photobook of 2021: Josef ChladekPhotobookstore Magazine – Best Photobooks of 2021: Clint Woodside
Deadbeat Club – Best Photobooks of 2021: Martin Amis
Photobookstore Magazine – Best Photobooks of 2021: Martin Amis
-
-
ENGLAND, Picnic
GEORGIA, Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum
GERMANY, Fotobus Library
GREECE, National Library of Greece
GREECE, Void
IRELAND, The Library Project
LATVIA, ISSP
ROMANIA, Photo Romania Festival at Grain Lab
SPAIN, Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid
SPAIN, Library of Museo San Telmo
SPAIN, UFCA Colectivo Fotográfico
USA, Bard College (Charles P. Stevenson Library)
USA, Bethel University Library
USA, Gustavus Adolphus College Library
USA, MoMA Library
USA, Muncy Library
USA, Syracuse University Libraries
USA, University of Oregon Design Library
-
Photograph: Yurian Quintanas Nobel
Text: Yurian Quintanas Nobel
Design: João Linneu
Edit: Myrto Steirou
Printing: MAS Matbaa
Binding: MAS Matbaa
Language: English
Font: ITC Franklin Gothic by Monotype
Yurian Quintanas Nobel © for the photographs and text
Void © for this edition