Reconstructions_Urban

Reconstructions investigate, through photography, the problem of time and of memory, the way in which we can forget and remember. The Reconstructions are poly-perspectival compound images in which each constitutive photo acts like an information-and-memory bit. The fact that these snapshots are taken of more or less the same place, yet at different times (after some minutes, days, months, years), conferring on the final image a spatial coherence and a temporal discontinuity. The whole ensemble aims to reconstruct certain contexts and personal experiences that played out in the past in order to create some puzzles which can sometimes break qua “time windows” pointing to other horizons. The “urban landscape” is an important theme for me, but not in the sense of architectural photography. It is one of the places in or through which one can see certain tendencies of society that populate and continuously change the “landscape”. In my photographic research, it has been my collaboration with architect Mariana Celac (and my acquaintance with her extraordinary research in the field of urban development/evolution) that has helped me even more than my background as an architect. Together we have made many photographic trips and we have had many discussions about my photographs.