The photographic series Puzzles is part of my research on the nature of the photographic image and its documentary essence. The images of buildings in ruins in Havana, New York or Cape Town, are deconstructed into pieces of a puzzle of impossible solution, where the document is revealed in fiction through the terrain of the game.
These Puzzles perpetuate the photographic act, on the one hand, they capture the specific
moment of the disappearance of a building in the collective memory, and on the other,
they constitute a tautology of the dismantling of a realization that is falling apart. It is the
apogee of the pair permanence/impermanence (understood as ruin).
From the series Puzzles: Hotel San Carlos, 2018
B/W photo printed on puzzle, photo laminated on Dibond,
wood, plexiglass.
39.5 x 49.5 x 9.5 cm
From the series Puzzles: Cape Town, 2018
B/W photo printed on puzzle, photo laminated on Dibond,
wood, plexiglass.
49.5 x 39.5 x 9.5 cm
From the series Puzzles: La Lucha, 2019
B/W photo printed on puzzle, photo laminated on Dibond,
wood, plexiglass.
69 x 97 x 11 cm
From the series Puzzles: La Maravilla, 2018
B/W photo printed on puzzle, photo laminated on Dibond,
wood, plexiglass.
39.5 x 49.5 x 9.5 cm
From the series Puzzles: Hongos, 2019
B/W photo printed on puzzle, photo laminated on Dibond, wood, plexiglass.
39.5 x 49.5 x 9.5 cm
From the series Puzzles: Centro Habana/Pájaros, 2020
Electrostatic photography printed on methacrylate and dibond, Forex, wood and metal.
204 x 244 cm
From the series Puzzles: Agua de mar/El Coliseo, 2020
Electrostatic photography printed on methacrylate and dibond, Forex, wood and metal.
188 x 224 cm