Vanishing Zones

...Vanishing Zones, a body of photographic works from 1990-1994 is a lyric body of works, introvert and distanced that does not easily lend itself to interpretation. The images included in this body of works evade definition or a fixation of a singular meaning. In all of them there is found outstanding paradoxical power of radical existence and inexistence. A force that stems from constant movement, smooth, flowing, between black and white, between contrast and haziness, between defining and identifying outlines and blurring, obscurity, and effacement.

Illusion, tension, ambiguity, intimacy, strangeness and alienation all trickle in the scenes, in a single composition of transparency and turbulence, creating a situation of a strange journey lacking tension between floatation and wallowing, between elevation and submersion.

The works could be said to be triggering a pattern of addiction. An addition to the never ending search for a coherent, cohesive, recognizable image, but at the same time also to the ongoing attempt to escape it, and the immediate meaning it embodies, to slip away to different worlds, undefined, nonverbal, that grasp one with their sensual powers. Grasping and not letting go...