Silence

Over the last few years I have been looking for natural landscapes and spaces that suggest an idea of silence, with the intention of giving a tangible form to it through my own photography. This body of work was born back in 2009 with my first visit to Iceland and the fascination for the beauty, melancholy, loneliness and abstractness of the Icelandic landscapes. Later on, I discovered places that have been dislodged from their original context, places that have been abandoned, or forgotten. Thus the core theme in my work is the silence, in nature as well as in spaces of disintegration and decay as an indicator of the inevitable and progressive passage of linear time. Inspired by painters from the 19th century, I attempt to evoke to meditation by combining visual material in a way that resembles the arrangement of words in a poem, seeking for a balance among them and blurring the boundaries between the naturally-occurring and the man-made, between painting and photography in a series of diptychs and triptychs. Each work, part of a series, could function independently, however, when combined, the dialogue and the balance between them manages to convey my own system of seeing and understanding. In some occasions I add new layers in order to create fictitious and mystical spaces, a dream-like imagery and fantasy landscapes. I try to create atmospheres that are located between fact and fiction, reality and imagination.