Urban Silence & Railway Silence

Hermann Schmidlin R. Neculman

Urban Silent tells us about the historical neglect that the port city of Valparaiso has experienced, currently brutally resentful.
 
The beauty of abandonment is moored like an end adrift in this challenging and brutal ”psychographic” sea.
 
Schmidlin R. Neculman builds silhouettes of icons of the coastal edge of his hometown through the passage of light, with photographic frames that allow us to re- look at the coastline.
 
From visual anthropology, he discovers silhouettes of primitive images of the coastline.
Urban-primitive images, which Hermann Schmidlin R. Neculman chooses for his Project “Urban Silence” and now he rereads and propose as “Railway Silence”, compiling photographic images of his travels in railways, their stations and routes, in Chile, France, Switzerland and keeping in his retina trips in India and Bolivia.
 
Schmidlin builds silhouettes of icons of the coastline of his hometown through the passage of light, with photograph frames that allow us to look at the coastline.
 
We see his proposal as a story of passengers on board a train that allows us and invites us to pause in silence to contemplate the frames chosen by the artist.