Statement Undercover Snowmaking Mindscapes

This is a project that was initiated the year 2001 around the Swedish archipelago, where ships of all kinds are stored and protected in order to spend the winter out of the water. What attracted my attention from the very first moment were the plastics covers.

Through a truly photographic exploration, these covering layers, which have a specific practical utility against the atmospheric elements, have been transformed into the spinal cord of my artistic research.
My artwork explores the relations between the internal and external, the visible and the hidden, the cover and the content, and at the same time it pushes the boundaries of what might be considered a credible visual object.
I have always been fascinated by the mysteries, by the unknown... and in fact what we don’t see, what we don’t know, really surpasses by far our knowledge and we barely perceive their magnitude with our imagination.
From their hidden position, these layer shaped mysteries, are silently affecting and transforming everything, from the dark matter of the universe to the simplest experiences of our every day life.
The visual exploration of these layers is a way to reach further from the limitations of the particular perspective, and try to establish a base from which marc, empathize, reveal the extension and power of the surface and how it’s invisible to us.
My latest images evolve around the flow from the outside to the inside, where the power of the covering layer is disclosed and revealed. They make it possible for the viewer to realize how these layers distort completely the perception of the content. By parallelism, similar transformations happens when the covers/layers are related to other concepts as protection, preservation, secrecy, censorship, consuming, privacy, death, Eros... and their effect is so powerful that what is grapped transforms and acquires a new meaning, sometimes totally different from its original purpose.

The inner intention of my artistic work spins around a concept that art critic David Bourdon, mentioned in reference to the works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Revelation through concealment.