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Blinde Klippe -German idiom for Blind Spot- is a project that includes installations, objects and images.
Trying to understand what was involved in the first possibility of reproducing ourselves partially in a flat image, reliving that original impulse that founded the belief in the images and trying to connect with the people who posed for those cameras, I went to the archives of the SXIX daguerreotypes. I wondered if it is around a custom that an image is produced or if the creation of images was the regulator of our habits. I went further back, to the emergence of the mirror and its contribution on the construction of our current identity: the beginnings of an identification that had the strength to settle as representation of ourselves. Through the regular behavior in front of our own reflection, Blinde Klippe evokes the latency of photographic ritual, and how, the mechanism of recognition in front of the images, involves this prolonged memory. The key is not who is the portrayed, but the functioning of an image thrown in front of us and its directives to compose us. Understanding a portrait is a willful and connective gesture, although the need for identification is a struggle that can be frustrating, as much as erecting a smoke effigy.


BLINDE KLIPPE

Working with acid solutions, I deteriorate mirrors on the back on which I project or print different portraits. I use smokes, reflexions and to myself as the subject of these portraits, but through the worn down mirrors, those images are only partially visible. The rest of the surface reflects the faces of those who contemplate the fragmentary photograph. Double play between an image that disappears and a reflection that updates its ritual, incorporating the current time of the person looking at it. In Mácula the reflection incorporates its own condition of darkness, there is not some other any more.

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Blinde Klippe 2: Photography intervened with smoke, cotton paper copy, pickling mirror. 70x50cm 2015

Blinde Klippe 2 Diptych: Photography intervened with smoke, cotton paper copy, pickling mirror. Anti Reflex mirror. 70x50cm each 2015

Blinde Klippe 1 Diptych: Photography intervened with smoke, cotton paper copy, pickling mirror. Anti Reflex mirror. 70x50cm each 2015

Blinde Klippe 1: Photography intervened with smoke, cotton paper copy, pickling mirror. 70x50cm 2015

Blinde Klippe 2 Diptych: Anti Reflex mirror. 70x50cm 2015

Reliquary. Folding box, photography intervened with smoke, cotton paper copy, velvet, glass, wood. 50x30cm 2015

Mácula Diptych: Beveled black mirror, golden wood frame to the leaf. 60 x 45cm each 2015

Portrait: Direct photography C-print 65x85cm 2017

Essay: Box display, photography intervened with smoke, cotton paper copy, transparent varnish, wood. 30x20cm 2014

Reflection reference on Blinde Klippe 1


MACULA

Macula, a term that designates the constituent part of the human eye responsible, in part, for the perception of faces and their details. Investigating a series of daguerreotype portraits damaged by the passage of time and oxidation at the archives of the Public Library of NY, I made a selection and I re-photographed them taking the shots with smoke, accentuating the dissolution of their faces. My intention was to realize how educated we are in the identification of faces, beyond the fact that at first it would be difficult to find the information - specially when part of the image is partially and mechanically forbidden. A reassuring sensation appears when we finally find the vanished face on the blur. It is then that we understand that we exist as long as we find the face of the other.
Technique: Black Macula, Polyptych : Photographies intervened with smoke, cotton paper copies, black frames, golden interiors to the leaf. 30x20cm each, 2015

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Black Macula, Polyptych : Photographies intervened with smoke, cotton paper copies, black frames, golden interiors to the leaf. 30x20cm each, 2015

Black Macula, Polyptych : Photographies intervened with smoke, cotton paper copies, black frames, golden interiors to the leaf. 30x20cm each, 2015

Black Macula, Polyptych : Photographies intervened with smoke, cotton paper copies, black frames, golden interiors to the leaf. 30x20cm each, 2015

Black Macula, Polyptych : Photographies intervened with smoke, cotton paper copies, black frames, golden interiors to the leaf. 30x20cm each, 2015

Black Macula, Polyptych : Photographies intervened with smoke, cotton paper copies, black frames, golden interiors to the leaf. 30x20cm each, 2015

Black Macula, Polyptych : Photographies intervened with smoke, cotton paper copies, black frames, golden interiors to the leaf. 30x20cm each, 2015

Black Macula, Polyptych : Photographies intervened with smoke, cotton paper copies, black frames, golden interiors to the leaf. 30x20cm each, 2015

Black Macula, Polyptych : Photographies intervened with smoke, cotton paper copies, black frames, golden interiors to the leaf. 30x20cm each, 2015

Black Macula, Polyptych : Photographies intervened with smoke, cotton paper copies, black frames, golden interiors to the leaf. 30x20cm each, 2015

Black Macula, Polyptych : Photographies intervened with smoke, cotton paper copies, black frames, golden interiors to the leaf. 30x20cm each, 2015


SMOKE PIECE MACHINE

Smoke piece - machine / video / stills - insists on the dissolution and appropriation of the reflected identity, our constant search for the confirmation of ourselves.

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Smoke piece machine: Box, glass, frame, glycerin smoke machine, valve, arduino, base.
Full cycle filled / emptied 40 min. 200x85x20cm 2015

Smoke piece machine: Video Stills. Fill sequence. Pics every 90 sec. Copies on photo paper. 30x20cm each. 2017

Smoke piece machine: Video Stills. Fill sequence. Pics every 90 sec. Copies on photo paper. 30x20cm each. 2017

Smoke piece machine: Video Stills. Fill sequence. Pics every 90 sec. Copies on photo paper. 30x20cm each. 2017

Smoke piece machine: Video Stills. Fill sequence. Pics every 90 sec. Copies on photo paper. 30x20cm each. 2017

Smoke piece machine: Video Stills. Fill sequence. Pics every 90 sec. Copies on photo paper. 30x20cm each. 2017

Smoke piece machine: Video Stills. Fill sequence. Pics every 90 sec. Copies on photo paper. 30x20cm each. 2017

Smoke piece machine: Video Stills. Fill sequence. Pics every 90 sec. Copies on photo paper. 30x20cm each. 2017

Smoke piece machine: Video Stills. Fill sequence. Pics every 90 sec. Copies on photo paper. 30x20cm each. 2017

Smoke piece machine: Video Stills. Fill sequence. Pics every 90 sec. Copies on photo paper. 30x20cm each. 2017

Smoke piece machine: Video Stills. Fill sequence. Pics every 90 sec. Copies on photo paper. 30x20cm each. 2017

Smoke piece machine: Video Stills. Fill sequence. Pics every 90 sec. Copies on photo paper. 30x20cm each. 2017