Jesus Monterde’s work is a consequence of his interaction with the inhabitants of remote places in El Maestrazgo, Spain.

His personal commitment to document the way of living and thinking in those locations and the relationship between man and animal is visible, but also it is visible his proximity to the world he photographs. Until he was around twelve years old, Jesus lived in that cultural environment and in that sort of collective hallucination, brutal but truthful and beautiful.

Nemini Parco (meaning ‘No one is spared’) was a common expression to be engraved in the scythe in the depictions of Death in the medieval Dances of Death and all through the baroque period, reminding Men, that Death makes no distinctions among their victims and it leads all men to the abyss. Complex rituals and singular actions that we witness through Jesus Monterde’s work, depict the way the subjects have to escape fear and somehow establish control over their lives. In the end it does not matter what is done in life we are all equal in Death’s eyes, including animals.

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