Inspired by psychoanalysis, phenomenology, semiotics, and conceptual art, my photographic practice questions the blind spots of our perception of reality, which is too often incomplete, univocal, or even biased. My favorite themes revolve around the perceptions we have of certain entities, whether natural or cultural, material or immaterial, that make up the everyday environment in which we live, and which our gaze stumbles upon due to the part of indiscernibility they contain. It is these stumbling points of our gaze, these blind spots that persist and where our capacity for representation wanes, that I seek to clear through a work of scopic drive that involves the photographic act.
From both a methodological and formal perspective, I prefer black and white for its stripping away of the percept in favor of the concept, thus becoming more readable, as well as serial research, through which the variation of images around the same photographed entity promotes the revelation of hidden aspects of reality. By capturing these similar or interrelated entities in diverse spatial or temporal contexts, I aim to show that our perception can be altered by the accumulation and arrangement of images related to each other according to principles of resonance or formal affinities. One of my main objectives is to challenge the viewer's usual perception. By presenting series of images that revisit the familiar to make it strange or unusual, I wish to provoke a reevaluation of what is often taken for granted. This approach reveals that the perception of reality is not constant, but rather a fluid concept, shaped by the context and the gaze it is subjected to.
In summary, my artist statement is based on the creation of photographic images that invite a deeper exploration of our perception of reality, my ultimate goal being to illuminate opaque entities, to raise questions, and to create images that expand the perceptual field of the viewer.