Confluencia (2018)

Confluencia is based mainly on the idea of using the landscape as a deconstruction of the portrait. It is a series of images that travel between the two worlds, on one hand, the images correspond to nature but the capture decisions grant a treatment that corresponds more with the portrait. It intends to interpellate the canonical notion of landscape, using portrait resources such as verticality, absence of horizon line, and detailed framing, as well as being a reflection on photographic language from technical, conceptual, and thematic aspects.

It establishes links with works by other artists such as Hiroshi Sugimoto and Alfred Stieglitz, challenging the condition of truth that historically was imposed on the photographic image, and how to face an image when we lose the connection with the original referent. As Stieglitz and his series Equivalents, the fact of facing natural elements on which it seems that we all have a fixed image immediately associated with the concept, water, fire, clouds, etc. but to make a faithful record we can perceive that reality is far away of that preconception, these elements have a temporality, an internal movement in the same way that photography has it.

The relationship of the image with the referent and the excess of information in the image end by abstracting and saturating it, in the same way, that the excessive flow of images ends up saturating our devices, media, and social networks.