PROJECTIONES
Landscape as a Projection of Thought
Thought can imagine realities that extend beyond the boundaries of known experience. Starting from familiar elements, it can generate landscapes in which nature assumes forms and relationships alien to the world we inhabit.
Projectiones explores this possibility through the photographic transformation of landscapes. Trees, waters, landforms, and skies are recomposed into configurations that evoke alien environments, resembling worlds belonging to another planet. The natural elements remain recognizable, yet their transformation leads them towards a reality that has no counterpart in our ordinary experience.
Within these landscapes, benches play a fundamental role. Familiar human-made objects, belonging to the terrestrial world, find themselves immersed in environments that seem alien to any known experience. Their presence maintains a connection with the world from which thought takes its starting point: even when imagination ventures into unknown realities, something continues to link it to its origins.
The bench thus becomes the point of contact between what exists and what can be imagined. It does not dispel the strangeness of the landscape, but introduces a tension between recognizable reality and the possibility of moving beyond it. It is within this relationship that vision acquires meaning, revealing the perhaps unconscious bond between thought and the reality from which it emerges.
In Projectiones, photography makes this movement of thought visible. The landscape is no longer merely what we observe, but a possible reality generated by transforming what we know. Imagination can carry us elsewhere without entirely severing our connection to the world from which we began.