Kalev Erickson

Cristina de Middel (Spain, 1975) and Kalev Erickson claim to have found a set of Polaroids on a flea market in Mexico City taken in the 1970s near the Mayan ruins of Tulum. The two artists ventured into a timeless jungle setting to recreate new images inspired by the original Polaroids. Paired up for the exhibition, the vintage snapshots blended with the recent images in giant lenticular prints, allowing the image of the past and that of the present to be grasped simultaneously. Through a picaresque story shifting between reality and fiction, the Jungle Check series invited viewers to sort the real from the fake and called into question the documentary reliability of archive photography.