Antonio Lachós "Darwinian cars".

In our Espacio Desconecta we can have a coffee while enjoying conversation and culture. Now we have a new exhibition: Darwinian cars, photographs taken by the teacher of the professional family of Image and Sound, Antonio Lachós.

"I used to be German, like almost everyone else. I prayed to the Bechers and had a Thomas Ruff poster. But I'm cured now. At that time I was into cars, but not in the cities, that's for poor people. I looked for cars in the countryside like someone looking for snails or votes. It's all because I don't like trees in cities.

That in these inhospitable places full of roundabouts, brothers-in-law and dogs in jumpers there are trees is a serious anomaly that should be contemplated by human rights because it means putting photosynthesis on night shift. And it is offensive, like when we see a pretty girl with a millionaire.

At the same level of transgression are the cars abandoned in the countryside: the shadow of land art is long. Many things have happened in these cars: broken windows, skinny bacas, rusty cats, epic coitus, the odd death. And like bulls returned to the pens, they wait patiently for a second chance for life to give them everything they deserve. From there they modify the environment and explain rurality, that which has technology as its servant and not as its master.

They all end up being vintage cars, due to the whims of time that turn everything they touch into a vintage car. And they gradually blend in with the place where they arrived, becoming part of nature itself, adapting the colour of the bodywork and even the smell. Pure Darwinism".

Antonio Lachós Roldán (Belver de Cinca, 1974). He currently teaches Image and Sound at the Martínez Vargas Secondary School in Barbastro, and is a regular collaborator in the organisation of the BFoto Emerging Photography Festival.