Train - Digital Photography 47'' x 31.5''

Mexican photographer, Apolo Anton Arauz, transforms urban settings into otherworldly experiences. He often incorporates found objects that serve as unique and abstract portals into a city’s inner meaning. Old and rotting buildings become beautiful fragments of a forgotten and sometimes unknown past. Arauz captures a rusting, brownish-red industrial ladder, the svelte floor of a tennis court, and the barbed wire of a prison entrance with such delicacy and care, that settings normally termed edgy and upsetting become at once beautiful and elegant. These photographs imbue urban dwellings with new life and mysterious vigor, inviting the viewer to delve deeper into the uncovered history of such places.

Arauz collects objects from the sites he photographs and then covers them in Resin Polyester Plastic, giving a physical dimension to the fleeting moments captured in his artwork. Observation is key to Arauz’s artistic method; the inanimate objects in his work are the embodiment of human emotions. The ability to give such feelings a physical form is what makes Apolo Anton Arauz’s artwork so mesmerizing with a multitude of hidden meanings ready to be uncovered.

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