PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography

2022

GICLÉE PRINT ON DIBOND SEALED WITH 4MM METHACRYLATE

60cmx90cm

The images of the cells series place us in front of abstractions that remind us of physiological structures or processes. The images are synthetic, created with dozens of different reagents on a liquid matrix. The scenes have a certain randomness, and sometimes I let them lead me, and not the other way around. Being fluid scenes, they transform over time, and evolve until all the reagents expand, crystallize, dilute...and the scene dies. And with it, the CELLS. It is a metaphor about the meaning of life.

In the case of “On the way to the egg”, the first thing that formed in the scene is the central rounded structure, which immediately made me think of an egg. If that was an egg, then my point of view was that of a sperm, and I must have been advancing on the fallopian tubes, which would be the pink surface at the bottom of the scene. Within a few minutes the round shapes around it began to approach the egg. These must have been the support cells, which are the ones that send the chemical signals to the sperm so that it knows how to find its way. The process by which the sperm moves forward following these chemical signals is called chemotaxis.

This image is one of my favorites of the series, because it is pure poetry. From the synthetic, from the inert, appears in full movement the process that allows the very existence of life. And the image is created with my tools, but it has its own inertia, speaking of an organic experience that it will never know.