Looking is Not Seeing

Everything is alive. In a physical sense, our reality is a cluster of matter vibrating within different agencies and affairs. Although we tend to privilege human beings over non-human agents and “things” in our material world, we are all interconnected. We forget that in time and space, we are all objects. Our bodies are also material; in this complex web of interrelationships, we are not the only ones capable of producing differences in the world, affecting the way we experience our lives.

What if I approach reality as a process where I am as much an object as anything else? In “Looking Is Not Seeing”, I take a different position other than subject x object. I explore a non-hi- erarchical relationship between objects, pointing my sensitivity towards their vibrant materiality.

I selected carefully, without bias, plastic, glass, concrete, organ- ic and inorganic bodies and materials. Even the human pres- ence in my images is just another form of object in the game of existence. It is a true democracy (of things) where their materi- al reality is more important than what they signify.

Every photograph in this series comes from a sensual relation- ship between two objects, one before the lens and one behind. Photography can empower and give life to things transforming their trivial existence into images other objects can connect to, invite a visual curiosity and encourage contemplation of reality in different ways.

The photographs are traces of encounters. Encounters that emerge from a democratic sensibility and my willingness to blend into a web of matter, colour and light. Acknowledging the inescapable power of objects and their inherent potential evoke a new experience, within the imagination, within life.