Video artist Charly Nijensohn travels to the most remote and abandoned areas in the world to capture the relationship between humans and their environment in an exemplary way.
The images for “El naufragio de los hombres” (The Shipwreck of Humanity) were shot in the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. During the dry season, it is an expansive salt flat, but during the rainy season, the area floods, transforming it into a surreal landscape. Footage of salt blocks in an endless lake, occasionally with a human figure standing on them, is displayed on three screens side by side.
About the artist
Nijensohn refers to his work as non-fiction. He does not use scripts, costume directions, or behavior guidelines. The images are not manipulated or edited into a narrative. The sound is a simple recording of what was heard during the filming. He presents the world as he finds it, no matter how strange it may seem to us. His work portrays the extremes of reality and reveals a world where the landscape dictates human actions.
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