del que passa a fora
erik estany tigerström

cat / ang / esp

"del que passa a fora" reflects on how we see the world today. the work explores how current visualization technologies and the new ways of seeing that they produce, shape our perception of reality and the landscape.

therefore, the work starts out from the window as a metaphor of the idea of vision and as a place from which to take the photographs. the author uses the local context that the window shows to think about the global context of visual capitalism that the screen projects, characterized by the centrality of the image, technoscience and computing. the work reflects on the condition of contemporary image and the characteristics of its production and circulation, and more specifically on issues such as the new visual normativity based on screens, machine vision and artificial intelligence, virtuality, or the shift from linear perspective to vertical vision.

in the work, the symbiotic relationship established by the photographer and the machine embodies the relationship we have nowadays with technology. a relationship of mutual learning, in which the photographer uses the machine to see more and better, while the machine uses the photographer to learn to see and look autonomously. a game that allows them to see beyond what exists, imagining the world while modeling it.

the images of the project, all made from the window/screen, represent, above all, a reflection about themselves and about the photographic medium itself. after all, the machine and the photographer look at what happens outside to imagine what happens inside this layer of images that mediates between us and the world.