3/29 Carlos and Jason Sanchez

Carlos and Jason Sanchez live and work out of Montreal, Canada. There use of color saturation and cinematic qualities remind me of works by Jeff Wall and Gregory Crewdson. There tableau's are at first familiar, but when you look closely there is something almost sinister about them.

The atmospheric elements created are unsettling and in some ways dark. The brothers play with the visual cliches portrayed in there narratives to create a conversation that speaks to such things as homosexuality, family relations, and Christianity. The patterns of key elements in there work helps to key the viewer read and visually unwind the image's questions.

There work seems like fragments of a larger narrative as if they were taken at the decisive moment in a film. There imagery is suggestive of something else that could be or have happend. Nothing is as it seems, or it seems a little off. This ambiguity contributes to the mood that encompasses all there work.

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