These three images, made in light of the recent events, were supposed to be shown at the Noorderlicht Photography Festival in July that has unfortunately been postponed.
This project materializes itself in a unique hand-carved photographic tryptic, depicting the interior of a room. More specifically, it envisions the room where I constructed this image, between December 2019 and January 2020. During this time, the room was not only inhabited by objects, me or my loved ones, but by an infinity of images. 
The three main panels of the piece stand as the three walls of a room you can observe while being in it. Altogether, they form a single image in which reading radically differs from the classical dichotomy of triptychs; here, hell and heaven coexist in a familiar yet dream-like vision of our reality. 

The first layer is the photographic print, for which I gather and assemble the objects existing in this room: food, screens, souvenirs, money, and flowers form modern still-lives, fitting the ephemerality and fetichism of over-consumption. The digital pictures are printed on glossy paper and mounted on aluminum, regaining the physical rigidity of a wall showing the shine and reflectiveness of a screen. 

I then weave complex geometrical structures that I overlap on the image. Based on the numbers phi and pi that are constants in nature and culture, I use such structures as scaffolding to build up my later graphical interventions on the prints. I carve the photographs with a mix of sharp tools and chemicals, making drawings appear as the photographic paper is eroded, unveiling the subtext of the photographies, their unconscious, and hidden meanings.
All of the images drawn existed in the room, they were all carefully placed on the image, following the structure, for their symbolic and narrative capacities, to create innovative visuals associations. 
They are etched on the paper, sometimes reaching the layer of metal and leaving it apparent, as reflective as a mirror. The different pictorial techniques allow me to create several reading levels and to create depth in the image. 




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