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The notion of truth is human arrogance; to invoke it is almost an act of power that separates us from reality, distorting the issues. We must knock down this deity and propagate the cult of uncertain and suggestive reality with the help of abstraction and photography. Neither of these tools reveal reality in its entirety, but they do get close to it, by providing relative, provisional and verifiable certainties. That is to say, knowledge.
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Although photography offers a marvelous superficiality of things, its association with the notion of truth leads to confusion. Photography is more concerned with verifiable, superficial parameters of reality than with the emotions caused by its perception. Its icons reflect reality, but no matter how great its accuracy, no matter how much its authenticity is exalted, its icons are neither reality nor the truth.
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Pinhole photograph of Peña Montañesa (Pyrenees).
This photograph was taken by turning the hotel room into a big dark camera and photographing the image thus obtained with a conventional analogue camera.
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Recent publications
WHERE?
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BOS TAURUS
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AQUA SANA
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Visualization, landscapes and morphologies of the territory
Ediciones Asimétricas, Madrid 2016 |
A Visual Anthropology of the Worlds of the Fighting Bull
Ediciones Asimétricas, Madrid 2014 |
Ediciones Asimétricas. Madrid 2022 |