Within the artist’s mental horizon, what we call “reality” is never entirely real, but becomes the starting point from which thought can move beyond what appears.
The Approach emerges from a reflection on the relationship between what we see and what the mind constructs through vision.
Photographed reality is not a destination, but the beginning of a process of transformation. Forms, spatial relationships, and directions of vision gradually lose their original meanings, contributing instead to the construction of a different perceptual experience.
Photography thus becomes a space of interpretation, where recognizing the subject is no longer essential to understanding the image. What matters is the possibility of moving through it, establishing new relationships, and discovering, beyond the appearance of things, a dimension belonging to thought.
The artwork does not offer an alternative representation of reality, but opens up the possibility of imagining it differently.
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