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On the edge (The edge) is the name of the border between America and Eurasiain the Bering Strait. An inhospitable place of permanent ice that converges with land and sea. Along this rim, Paleo-Siberian hunters emigrated to America more than 20,000 years ago, becoming the continent's first settlers. With them migratory movements and new settlements began, and also with them the human species found a new common ancestor.
Laiz, through the analysis of his DNA, searches for his traces in ghostly faces that interpret the phenotypic portrait, one that reconstructs genetic traits, without forgetting his intense relationship with nature.
The work of alvaro laiz (León, 1981), anthropological and environmental photographer, at Galeria do Freijo departs from this historical and geographical point to expand to the universalto investigate time and memory, from Bering to Tierra del Fuego in Chile, from the Mesolithic past to deep space-time, for more than seven years.
His ambitious research oscillates between genetics and image, between the earthly and the cosmic, the atavistic and the tangible. A versatile and ambitious project, audiovisually formalized with incredible aesthetic and conceptual power. It is supported by the National Geographic Society, the Museo Universidad de Navarra, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the Rita Allen Foundation.
