Minimal
Poetics (8 single photographs, 60x40cm each)
The
photographs in this series are anassuming. They contrast with the world we live
in, saturated with vibrant images, consumerist appeals and hedonistic signs of personal
fulfillment. They seek visual refuge in the urban landscape, also polluted by
excesses.
Not
by chance, they focus on modernist language buildings. From an aesthetic and
ethical sense, modernism was guided by a collective and universalist political utopia and by the economy of forms and means. In opposite direction, in
postmodernity we live with the resurgence of xenophobic nationalisms, the
exacerbation of predatory consumption, and the spread of individualism and
ostentation.
With
few geometric surfaces expressed in faded colors, "Minimal Poetics"
takes architecture as a photographic object to evoke the need for pauses and
silences. It aims to value the emptiness as an instance of reflection, as a
space of awareness in the counterflow of the torrents of images and fake news.
In David Le Breton's synthesis, "Nowadays being silent and walking are two
forms of political resistance."
