Imagined architectures, architected images

“Imagined architectures, architected images” uses geometric abstraction to address the historical connections between photography and painting. Not only as an aesthetic language, but also as a creative process.

Since its invention, photography has interacted with painting. When photographers began to take more realistic portraits and landscapes, painting turned to other expressive forms, such as impressionism, surrealism, cubism and expressionism, among others. On the other hand, photography, created as a technical invention, sought to legitimize itself as art by approaching painting. Initially through academic themes, rules and compositions, and later by embracing avant-garde pictorial languages.

In this series, everything is architecture and everything is photography, including the colors, which are photographs of the surfaces of buildings. I photograph buildings to undo them. With their fragments, I construct images that transfigure both the idea of architecture and that of photography.

Born from existing architecture, photographs become imagined architectures. Architected images. As in painting.