layers 2005

Each work consists of two levels:  the first paper surface is overlapped by a second one of rice-paper. The result of this overlaying process is a double image that in some areas through a fusion process becomes a new one, mean while in other parts of the scene overcomes the background or the foreground image. The overlaying process and consequently the erasing process that is been provoked by the overlapped levels is a common phenomenon and inevitable: the idea of the palimpsest that crosses through...  

The image behind the image, the picture in the picture, the space that unfolds behind the rice-paper and, in addition, the positioning of the spectator are crucial matters in his work. The structure of the image in layers in space and its shifting capacity, depending on the spectator’s position, providing the picture with a active character that calls upon the spectator to move, to get closer so that the second level may disappear and appears the first one, dissolved up to then, level. The work becomes a space that is activated through the spectator, who is no longer placed passively in front of it but, instead, functions as a dynamic agent activating the intermediate, the unfolding, in-between spaces