We dwell in the indefiniteness of reality. With the certainty
that everything can be atherwise and the uncertainty that what we believe
to be real really is so. In that way of feelling, everything that could
define us, everything that at another time we could resort to in order
to cling to the certainty of knowing who we are, vanishes. Gender, sings
of identity, the appearance of our surroundings, impossible landscapes
that man builds with his advanced technologies and with the misery of
overdevelopment.
Concha Pérez builds non-existent yet not impossible spaces. With
digital imaging applied to photography virtually anything is possible
and the doubt about what is real and what is imagined becomes a shadow
that covers any imagined sun. Cybernetic places that are familiar to us,
armchairs in the middle of the street, the sea as an inhabited place,
a lone chair in a quarry…. Places of uncertainty in which the presence
of man bestows them with a certain logic, which makes us see them as something
possible, yet without the assurance of having been there, places that
we believe we have seen in some film, perhaps in some dream, but that
work in our subconscious as preambles of future landscapes.
— Rosa Olivares
Concha Perez was one of three photographers chosen
to represent Spain in 2008 at the nightlong projection of photographs
from 27 European countries at the Rencontres Festival in Arles.
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Shadow Hunters
Concha Pérez builds non-existent yet not impossible spaces. With digital imaging applied to photography virtually anything is possible and the doubt about what is real and what is imagined becomes a shadow that covers any imagined sun.
Shadow Hunters
Concha Pérez builds non-existent yet not impossible spaces. With digital imaging applied to photography virtually anything is possible and the doubt about what is real and what is imagined becomes a shadow that covers any imagined sun.
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