Dioramas
First presented in 2012, this body of work has made use of materials such as polystyrene foam, cork sheeting, cement, reinforced concrete, wood, and stone as sculptural mediums to create three-dimensional panorama artworks. Each piece of the series can be read either as the depiction of a human face, when viewed from a distance, or a detailed urban landscape, when seen from up-close. These elaborate architectural pieces are brought to life by means of a delicate balance in contrast.
In conceptual terms, the series explores the process of reciprocal shaping that exists between the city and its inhabitants, by which both contribute towards the formation of each other’s identity and character, establishing over time a fundamental affinity.
Inherent to these elaborate architectural pieces is a poetic interplay of light and shadow that highlights the city’s own contrasting layers, expressing the need for these two fundamental elements – representative of the positive and negative aspects that give it form – to coexist in order to make up the whole.
Both the portraits and the cityscapes can depict either real people and real cities, or composites based on the reinterpretation of portraits and cartographical layouts.
