Unsustainable Topographies III

For five years now, my work has been documenting the fictional dimensions of landscape’s natural appearance, as well as its constant transformations. The static gaze usually fails to notice movement and prefers to read these terrains as a contemplation ground. By expanding the photographic support, I have been creating facilities in which tensions are generated between nature and its representation. These works propose to analyze how the process of perception of the environment is carried out, whilst simultaneously, predetermined concepts and meanings are imposed.

I start from the premise that the construction of the landscape through the medium of photography places us in the middle of a fold fiction: that created by the perception that space has boundaries so as to foster our empathy with what we call “nature.”

I want to uncover appearances, inviting to dig deeper and change our point of view. When changing perspective or seeing the reverse, doubt is introduced, what seems to be immutable is questioned, then the collapsed truth of the panoramic image remains.

There is no landscape that is not filtered and there is no single authentic foundation in the image, everything is sustained by the tension between the supposed concrete reality and a representation created as nature.

I’ve undertaken a critical investigation into the construction of the concept of “natural landscape” and my photographic practice as the author of images centered on a procedure capable of capturing nature and constructing it, in turn, as an ideal of beauty. I rely on tools as: photocopy, photographs realized with expired film and stone installations to propose intentionally an incomplete system, marked by gaps and voids, to simulate an unlearning process, that suggests the beginning of a new ecological era.