Desconocido

Installation view / 140  x 100 x  3 / 2025

Steel, acrylic glass, collected objects 

In an age where images are created, distributed, and discarded at an unprecedented pace, I am interested in the persisting materiality of our visual culture. Drawing on Warburg’s method of tracing visual and conceptual correspondences across time and context, Desconocido considers the newsstand as a repository of recurring motifs – images that circulate, degrade and reappear in altered forms. The installation emphasises repetition within the collected images: the recurrence of gestures, depictions of women, and desirable landscapes that extend beyond their frames into neighbouring images. Picturesque ruins and dreamlike destinations are further distanced by their chromatic shifts, as the gradual loss of colour alters their original intent. Equally central is the material collapse itself – the slow dissolution of ink, the disintegration of printed surfaces – which unfolds in a pale color palette marked by decay, where pinks, cyans and purples signify the transition of the image into another realm.