Marc Guillorel was in Argentina in 1989. He attended the vicisitudes of a nation ravaged by hyperinflation, misery and despair. The country was going to try a change of drastic course which in the end would not work either. Saturday July 8, Carlos Saúl Menem's presidential inauguration day, Its alert camera records the crowd movements in the center of Buenos Aires.
With the instinct of a photojournalist and the framing of an artist, He enters groups of expectant people, Behind barriers or near posters on which a politician poses in a young face - in the face of rolquettes and not yet eroded by degradation - next to a slogan that states, With the joyful certainty of an advertisement for shampoo: "With the dignity of work, The future returns to you "[…] a testimony that is gaining strength when it moves away from this singular ceremony […]
Julio Schvartzman extracts and translated from:http://bazaramericano.com/resenas.php?cod=983&pdf=si