I was born in Barcelona. Yet my definitive connection to art and photography comes from Salamanca, where I studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at its university until 1992. In 1997, I created a space entirely devoted to this medium, “El Fotógrafo,” which remained active until 2015. There I began to study the history of photography, the noble processes, optical devices… a way of seeing through photography.
I have chosen analogue technique, black-and-white, the chemical process. These are my field of expansion. This attentive observation of the life of images is simultaneously an investigation into their nature, an attempt to delve into the invisible interiors of the photographic.
Statement
It is difficult to explain my work because it is difficult to explain oneself. Photographic practice, for me, constitutes an intimate act—an act of interpretation, definition, and expression of my own self. Photography has always been part of my life; it is my life. And I work alone with it. Solitude is the indispensable metaphor of the photographer. I work first as an observer and subsequently as a manipulator. It is within that solitary practice that I come to discover myself.
My work assumes a distinctly experimental character: an approach to the nature of the photographic medium and an inquiry into my own presence within the work.
I employ a technique of destruction, recomposition, and montage that intensifies ruptures and dissonance, generating a field of plasticity understood as the organic condition of representational space.
It is a chemical black-and-white practice in which the darkroom becomes an encompassing space: a poetics of process—perhaps the true subject of my work.
A return to emotion: photography as an art of the sensible. A return, as well, to the aura.
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