

His buildings are garish, colorful and completely overloaded. Columns and glittering chandeliers everywhere, and way too much of everything. The Bolivian civil engineer and architect Freddy Mamani Silvestre (*1971) builds houses in El Alto for a nouveau riche upper class of the Aymara, the largest indigenous ethnic group in Bolivia.
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Heinz Emigholz's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
“Every frame feels alive. Mamani in El Alto is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”