Elision

2016

Blueprints

2015

Blueprints was commissioned for the exhibition “Appearances Can Be Deceiving: Photographic Explorations through Mexican Photography”, curated by Irving Dominguez with the support of Museo Universitario del Chopo and Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes.

This project sought to invert the relationship between photography and architecture, and return the museum’s building to its original space as a blueprint. Over a period of a month, I climbed the towers at the Chopo Museum in Mexico City, registering the shadow of the structure onto cyanotypes. The intention of the work was to reconnect architecture and photography, returning the building to its conceptual state through a poetic gesture that speaks about space in relation to time.

Wall Drawings

2014

Using the patterns that are formed by the holes on the concrete wall, a set of rules is created to draw a series of geometric structures on to the wall. Wall Drawings is a game obliged by a set of visual rules using a digital projector to draw on the concrete wall.

Participated in the XII Bienal FEMSA.

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Concrete space

2014 – 2015

Concrete Space suggests the limits and tensions between thought and matter. This body of work presents a series of instant black and white film, taken in different construction sites, framed in concrete. The abstract spaces are constructed inside of the camera, by making multiple exposures on the same picture plane, thus transforming the space into a mental space, that only the camera can perceive. The work seeks to speak about a phenomenology of construction through a series of images that transform the physical space, a space made of concrete, into an abstract plane generated by light. The piece finally returns to its physicality by pushing of the wall and remembering its concrete reality.

Project supported by Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes.

Hallucinations

2013

“One does not see with the eyes, one sees with the brain”
Oliver Sacks

I use the camera as if it was my brain constructing meaning from darkness to light. The process for this work was to create images of imaginary spaces, spaces that only the camera could see, made out of pieces of pictures by doing multiple exposures unto one frame. Drawing from black to white, calculating layers of shade and balancing foreground and background, in a memory game that does not finish until the image is complete.

This project is inspired and dedicated to Oliver Sacks.

Polaroids

2013

Unlike painting, photography is based on additive color theory, in which the primary colors are red, green and blue, and yellow is simply the result of red and green light. The images are constructed from layers of paper exposed multiple times to generate different colors and shapes. These photographs where taken with one of the few Polaroid 20 x 24″ cameras that exist in the world. And although the result is a two-dimensional photographic image, the edge of the piece makes evident the developing process. In this way, the work produces a tension between the intangible and the concrete to reveal the raw material that constitutes the photographic process, creating the illusion of an architectural space.

Constructions

2012 – 2013

In a digital age where the boundaries between the virtual and the physical blend and generate new experiences, I am interested in using the language of abstraction to make images which seem to present a tangible visible reality but which are in fact never quite there, except in the eye of the camera and the mind of the maker. In the studio, I construct installations using simple materials and project light on to them. I seek to transform the physical with light and shadow. The process of integrating these elements into a picture allows me to play with the materiality of thought. I aim to challenge our beliefs about perception and make thought visible by drawing attention to the light as it embraces the surface of paper and animates space. The interaction between light and shadow transforms these ephemeral installations into complex visual spaces that evoke a world that is both physically tangible and as elusive as light, both virtual and real.