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LUPITA, I’VE KEPT YOU AN APRICOT ON THE TREE. I’VE TOLD IT TO WAIT FOR YOU.
Guadalupe Ruiz
«It is also a way for Ruiz to pass on her own childhood experience to her son, and to involve him in the tradition of family correspondence – the book’s title is a line the artist’s grandmother wrote to her as a child.»
LUPITA, I’VE KEPT YOU AN APRICOT ON THE TREE. I’VE TOLD IT TO WAIT FOR YOU.
Guadalupe Ruiz
Text by Noëlle Revaz, English, 16 × 14 cm, 24 pages, 21 color plates, softcover, co-published with Turbo Magazine, Kodoji Press, Baden 2018, ISBN 978–3–03747–092–3
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Guadalupe Ruiz’s book ‘Lupita, I’ve kept an apricot on the tree for you. I’ve told it to wait for you.’ is a story for children and for their parents. Her small publication takes a young reader through the streets of an unknown city and deciphers what might be happening, from their perspective, in the pictures. It is also a way for Ruiz to pass on her own childhood experience to her son, and to involve him in the tradition of family correspondence – the book’s title is a line the artist’s grandmother wrote to her as a child.
Guadalupe Ruiz is a photographer and artist born in Bogotá, Columbia, who has lived in Switzerland for nearly two decades. Her work adroitly combines observation and anthropology. Ruiz’s ongoing interest in topics surrounding immigration took on a fresh personal perspective with the birth of her son Octavio. How could she tell him about the place where she grew up? The photographs in the book are pictures Ruiz found in her belongings and show the city of Bogotá as she knew it and since then. Octavio is not familiar with this place, and the city has been evolving over the past decades. The narrative, written by Noëlle Revaz, is part explanation, part storytelling, part imagining of what the images might mean. The city is seen by different generations as they read and decipher it for young people.
Guadalupe Ruiz (born 1978, Bogota) is a Columbian visual artist and photographer based in Biel, Switzerland. She studied at the ECAL in Lausanne and the HGKZ in Zürich. Her work has been exhibited internationally. In 2015 she printed and self-published her acclaimed artist’s book KLEINE FOTOENZYKLOPÄDIE.