Desconocido

Installation view / 140  x 100 x  3 / 2025

Steel, acrylic glass, collected objects 

Drawing on Warburg’s method of tracing visual and conceptual correspondences across time and context, Desconocido considers the newsstand as a repository of recurring motifs: images that circulate, degrade and reappear  in altered forms.

The installation emphasises repetition within these collected images, showcasing the recurrence of gestures, depictions of women, and desirable landscapes that extend beyond their frames into neighbouring images. Picturesque ruins and dreamlike destinations appear further distanced by their chromatic shifts, and the gradual loss of colour alters their original intent — to sell, to attract, and to promise proximity to something that remains inherently unknown. Desconocido refers to this very state of distancing and estrangement; reflecting on an image that has become alien to itself. Equally central hereby is the material collapse itself – the slow dissolution of ink and disintegration of printed surfaces – which unfolds in a pale color palette marked by discoloration, where pinks, cyans and purples signify the transition of the image into another realm.