“There is something magical about how photography perceives and records Time & Motion”.   

    I am attracted to explore the boundaries of what is photographic and what is real, and make a reflection with the notion of Time and Movement, using ‘Body and Performance’ as references.

During the first attempts when I started to experiment producing the first images, I had the feeling of assembling a puzzle’s pieces, compounded by a mixture of figures formed by blurry lights and colours. Images started to reappear and make sense, creating a visual narrative of forms and colours transforming the performance and rendering to it a different perspective. The film becomes an analogy, a kind of black canvas to experiment with.

Therefore my work rather than to be a faithful photographic document depicting ‘Reality’ is rather more an allegory. The allegory attempts to explore and recreate ‘The Body in Motion’ in a fictional way.  At the same time it opens a new window to deal with my ideas and references transferring them into the stage.

I feel comfortable working with simple subjects, artist performers, mime and dancers, blending their work with mine, referring to myths, political and psychological pieces, they become a platform to develop my experimentation. I am interested in the relation between the performance and the photographic act and when the resulting mixture becomes something deferent from its parts.

The absence of space bestows my subjects a feeling of weightlessness. The camera allows me the possibility to become undertake an experiment with elements such a films, zoom optics, long exposures and camera movements and to create colours by using different lighting sources and projections.

These elements become like an adjustable valve to the performers, moving dynamically between body and light. Everything takes place in front the camera. There is no digital manipulation.  The fugitive nature of the colours is captured by the camera in long exposures and zoom movements, I can build up layers of light and colours, to depict time among the Body’s actions and transform it like a living canvas.

As an experiment the results are variable therefore, one can never predict them because the nature of the process is never constant, experimenting through visualization and improvisation I attempt to bring it out of the mental image, shifting between what is real (the photographic) and unreal (the image).

 The black box transfers an atmosphere where the performers seem in suspension.  Surrounded by the lack of physical space the illusion of perspective despair.  It allows the eye to question the image and follow this throughout the scroll of the panoramic format.

I attempt through my panoramic formats and techniques to load my photographs with time.  To allow the eyes travel and relate to the images in different way, discovering the action by deciphering the body though the recount of time.

I am interested in use the medium of photography on this body of work, to render an allegory and blend the borders of what is real or what is represented.  ‘Body & Flux’