View from my room
by Featured Artist: ARTURO SOTO
Arturo Soto, View from my room, 21-10 Broadway Apt 3, Astoria, New York City, 2006 (from the series Some Windows Later), inkjet print, 30 x 30 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
VIEW FROM MY ROOM
ARTURO SOTO | FEB 2023 | Issue 21
We usually perform two actions when looking through a window: we delve into ourselves while looking out at the world. The pictures in my series Some Windows Later (2002-ongoing) document the cities where I have lived, creating a fragmented narrative that utilizes the window—or its respective view—as a leitmotif to interrogate my relationship with those places. The series, which has developed over time, suggests how the intricate construction of our public and private lives is influenced by the urban landscape that surrounds us. The title was inspired by a verse in Paul Celan’s poem Crystal (1949).
Arturo Soto is a Mexican photographer and writer. He has published the photobooks In the Heat (2018) and A Certain Logic of Expectations (2021). Soto holds a PhD in Fine Art from the University of Oxford, and postgraduate degrees from University College London and the School of Visual Arts. He curated the exhibition Foreign Correspondence at the Architectural Association and participated in the first edition of Forecast Platform at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.