The pictorial illusion on three-dimensional surfaces creates a landscape where the viewer is able to move amongst the pieces. Cubic fragments of urban materials flow, slide, and sink. The ground softens and undulates like a sea that emerges from a minimalist and disquieting landscape. Harmony between appearances and simulations issue forth from the gallery floor. Motionless remnants that in their inherent falseness remind us of the edge. A limit that the painting itself overcomes.
I used trompe-l’oeil to reproduce the different textures on urban materials. I also extended the wood grain of the floor and lifted some boards to give a watery appearance to the solid surface.
This project brings to mind the fragility of contemporary landscapes, of poetic appearance and tragic meaning, and the breaking of waves recalls the latent risk of the polar ice caps melting and the oceans rising. The three-dimensional ruins of urban materials lay about like remnants of a razing of the space.
2007
Galery Nueveochenta, Bogota