{"id":6800,"date":"2014-12-29T13:14:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T21:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6800"},"modified":"2018-05-02T16:21:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T23:21:51","slug":"6800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=6800","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div  style='height:5px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_third  \" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6802 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Country-Fictions-by-Juan-Aballe-1.jpg\" alt=\"Country-Fictions-by-Juan-Aballe-1\" width=\"675\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Country-Fictions-by-Juan-Aballe-1.jpg 675w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Country-Fictions-by-Juan-Aballe-1-100x80.jpg 100w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Country-Fictions-by-Juan-Aballe-1-450x358.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/> <\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_hr  \" ><div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-3  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Spanish photographer Juan Aballe\u00a0noticed that many of his close friends were moving to the countryside. Aballe found himself confronted by the thought \u2013 what would life be like if he packed it all in and headed out to the country?\u00a0In\u00a0a series of photographs titled <em>Country Fictions<\/em>, Aballe explores the comparability of imagined pastoral utopias versus reality. Aballe\u00a0shot in a number scarcely populated areas on the Iberian Peninsula. \u201cIn what could be called a collection of daydreams, <em>Country Fictions\u00a0<\/em>reflects on the photographic language itself and how we are influenced by previous representations and preconceived ideas about rural utopias\u201d says Aballe. \u201cThe illusion of escaping from contemporary society, the naivety and the hopes built around nature come together with the strangeness and the nostalgic look at a life that is not mine.\u201d(<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #339966;\" title=\"Juan Aballe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thefoxisblack.com\/2014\/11\/10\/country-fictions-juan-aballe-photographs-the-true-face-of-a-pastoral-utopia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>[easy-share buttons=&#8221;facebook,twitter,linkedin,mail&#8221; counters=0 native=&#8221;no&#8221; image=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/yusuke-asai-waf-1.jpg url=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6800 facebook_text=Share twitter_text=Tweet\u00a0linkedin_text=Link text=&#8221;Photographer Juan Aballe&#8217;s Pastoral Utopias&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div> <div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_two_third '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_third  \" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6801 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/23_cf29juanaballe.jpg\" alt=\"23_cf29juanaballe\" width=\"675\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/23_cf29juanaballe.jpg 675w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/23_cf29juanaballe-101x80.jpg 101w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/23_cf29juanaballe-450x355.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/> <\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-last  \" ><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish photographer Juan Aballe explores the comparability of imagined pastoral utopias versus reality. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6800"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18386,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions\/18386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}