Landscapes is a series that originates within a larger experimental project focusing on digital photographic matter.
By digital matter I mean, on the one hand, the transformation in post production with photo retouching programmes and, on the other hand, I refer to the physical, material aspect, the material contact and the concrete manipulation of the printed digital image. The printed digital photo is deformed and used as a simple material, juxtaposing it with other media and materials: sheets, canvases, paintings, etc. It is then rephotographed and reinserted into the digital dimension, where it undergoes further processing.
The photographic image somehow loses all its semantic value, its formal meaning, and becomes a purely material medium; it is no longer the technique, the object/subject photographed or how it was photographed that is of interest, but its becoming matter that can be moulded and reused in different procedures. This allows access to a new creative space and a different reflexive approach to the photographic image.
Its reproducibility property takes on another meaning: it becomes a unique subject, re-photographable and thus reproducible again. A digital photo is not just a technological image, a complex of pixels, but a material, physical process that is finalised through the act of photography.
The series in question recycles old photographs or photographs taken for practical and not aesthetic purposes.
