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Background information
"For
more than two decades, Alessandra SANGUINETTI has been photographing
the lives of Guillermina and Belinda, two cousins living in rural
Argentina, as they move through childhood and youth toward womanhood.
This volume, 'The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and The Enigmatic
Meaning of Their Dreams', originally published in 2010 and reissued now
as the first instalment of a trilogy, chronicles the first five years of
their collaboration.
Content
The color photographs in 'The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and The Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams' by Alessandra SANGUINETTI portray a childhood that is both familiar and exceptional. The farmlands of western Buenos Aires province are a particular mix of the modern and traditional, where life is lived in consonance with animals and rugged landscapes. Against this backdrop, Guille and Belinda go through the childhood rites of dressing up and make believe, exploring and appropriating the world around them as they go. As they slip between roles, alternately performing for and being caught by Alessandra SANGUINETTI’s camera, the profound bond between the two girls is unmistakable. Approaching the precipice of early adolescence, their games are imbued with the poignant weight of their dreams and desires as the world of play meets that of reality. By depicting the lives of women and girls within the conventionally masculine world of Argentinan gauchos and farmers, Alessandra SANGUINETTI's book 'The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and The Enigmatic Meaning of Their Dreams' interrogates the frameworks of mythologies of all kinds, honouring lives that are usually unseen. 'The Adventures of Guille and Belinda' series is a portrait of rural childhood at once quiet and poetic, in which the fantastic and the mundane are intimately entwined." (© Mack books, 2021)