Photography

Photography is an unstable process generated by the encounter between a technological device and our ability to think about images. Its borders are very fluid, and it interests me from a technical as well as a cultural point of view.

References (art, literature, music, other)

Right now I have a linguistics book, a media theory essay, a book on writing in Mesopotamia, and a neuroscience book on my desk. I am more selective in art. So many things visually bother me or immediately bore me. I tend to go back to the same artists often, especially if they work on themes that are dear to me. The last thing I listened to was LAAKE’s ‘O’ album, an electronic symphony in which techno and classical music blend perfectly. In the periods when I dedicate myself to writing I avoid reading other things, and when I work on works I avoid looking at other artists. For the rest, it is a continuous flow.

Research methodology

I am increasingly interested in pushing techniques, media and concepts to their breaking point, wearing down their internal limits, touching that threshold or point of no return that marks a physical, technical or epistemological limit. During this phase of implementation, the materials or technologies I work on are stressed until they reach their internal limit. At a methodological level, each of my works follows a process of this type: an intertwining of materials and thoughts in which any apparent irreconcilability disappears and the texture of the work and the text – of the attached theoretical speculation – are given shape. The work is what remains of a creative process that includes its own generating trace and that stabilizes only when it reaches a satisfactory balance between form and content .

Contaminations

Their origin is the most varied but their destination is always my work-in-progress archive: collections of documents, images, texts, notes or other materials on which I cycle back. I could say that these contaminations are the way I nurture, sometimes even for years, ideas that are still in an embryonic or slowly evolving state. With the progress of my research I begin to implement the first hypotheses, theories, techniques, and to experiment with different working methods, in search of those most similar to the materials sought and the questions in question. The final work always comes as a result of a sudden correlation between previously distinct researches, contaminations, ideas and materials. We could say that the final work is born only at this point, at the establishment of a connection that overcomes any apparent irreconcilability to propose a new hypothesis of reality.