Land. On the brink of some formidably complex matter.
(2015)
“I never cease to be fascinated by how the seemingly immovable is constantly set in motion.”
Land originates from the brief memory of a landscape. During the recurrent round-trip between the author’s two home countries, which involved crossing the Pyrenees, the view of the slowly-shifting layers of the landscape gliding past the car window seemed both mysterious and full of promise, hinting at what lay beyond and was about to be revealed.
Land is a series of photographs that depict the gaze on that very landscape. With its vertiginous and disorienting views, the author alludes to a personal turning point that coincided with her first steps into independent adulthood and the decision to move to a place on the other side of the Pyrenees. This mountain range represents both the physical border and the personal passage that she traversed at that moment in her life.
The photographs of the highly transformed and fragmented landscapes —both in reality and photographically— are pieces that can be organized and fitted together in a myriad of ways. Every new combination is the possible outcome of a puzzle that has no reference image. Land is a visual journey. An exploration of photography’s potential to organize space. An approximation to a new territory, to a landscape and to an inner state of being.
