The Invisible, the Mimesis, the Ghost, the Monster, the Ruin, the Eye and the Cave

“There were years when, in an attempt to understand the invisible (which I saw covering everything like a thin film), I started to look for metaphors, symbologies and comparisons. To understand what an image really meant, I began to think about the idea of a monster, a fossil, a ghost, an alien, a portrait, a ruin, an eye; and Plato’s cave. For me, there’s a clear similarity among these metaphors: they are structures that are not entirely rendered by the images that present them. They possess deeper, thicker levels than the image per se, and that’s what I mean by the invisible. With the image as flashlight and text as shadow, the project brings this investigation into physical space. It’s not an just attempt to answer a question, but to elaborate upon the unknowable.”