I began the series New Architectures -which included this work with rice paper and wire lamps- in the year 2000, with works that focused on the creation of an “ideal city” or of the imagination, but which at the same time sought to create a more introverted space of meditation and distance from reality, even though they initially started from a “documentary” relationship with the urban space.

The works of the “New Architectures” series consist of a “model” of a city in which its buildings and all its urban recreation are made in the manner of Japanese lamps, made of rice paper, metal and electric light. These cities are not easily identifiable, and keep that relationship of ambiguity with the photographic document, and with the object itself, in this case the model-city-lamp, which I have tried to handle in all my work. Until now all the works in the series had been installed on tables or shelves, which somehow reaffirmed their condition as models and the sense of domesticity that was always present in these works, (with the idea of the lamp at night, in the confrontation of that private space with the public space of any nocturnal city). Unlike the previous ones, this is a hanging city, penetrable, sustained by itself, suspended and stopped in space (Carlos Garaicoa)