Algas 45-V

Algas 45-V, 2022 by Paola Davila
From the series Mareas
Cyanotype on 300 gr cotton paper
Image size: 45 cm Dm
Frame size: 78.7 H x 78.7 W x 5 D cm.
Unique

The title of each piece corresponds to the geographical coordinates of the place where the pieces were made. The last number indicates the number of waves the paper received. The piece is protected in an acid-free PH-neutral glassine paper envelope, archival quality.
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For several years the artist Paola Davila has generated various visual statements from photography. Beyond the self-imposed limits in thematic terms (the house, for example), this exercise has allowed him to articulate concerns and situate spaces: inside, outside, and the limits between one and the other. From there, with the landscape as support: as an extension of situations contained in intimacy or in the object, it has insisted on making its way within other thematic and media fields to different complexities of the idea of ​​also inhabiting the public and finding a voice own in the contemporary photographic narrative.
Water is constant in the artist's visual investigation, for her water is no longer the stage in which the body's memory bursts, but rather the environment and protagonist, constant operator of the image, water reveals, unveils, performs. The landscape is recorded by direct contact with the paper and the sensitive emulsion, and in this case, organic matter and the vestige of living organisms inhabit it. That is, there is no representation, but rather its direct presence as part of the work. It is almost dramaturgy, a high-sounding discussion with the visual arts, the history of Landscaping is overturned.