The Invisible Landscape is a pictorial body of work that privileges the phenomenological experience of the viewer, establishing a direct relationship between the body, light, and the materiality of the artwork. The surface, composed of dense and dark matter, interacts with changing lighting conditions, while the pronounced contrasts between the depths of Prussian blue and brighter tonalities generate an optical and retinal dynamic in constant transformation. Difficult to capture through photographic devices, this practice asserts the primacy of the artwork’s embodied and situated experience, reaffirming the specificity of the pictorial medium in the face of contemporary technologies of visual reproduction and mediation.
By rendering the landscape partially invisible and its representation difficult to apprehend, this research questions the place and value of landscape within the context of the ecological crisis. What does it mean to paint the landscape at a time when natural environments are undergoing accelerated processes of disappearance and transformation? Here, perceptual difficulty becomes a critical tool through which to examine our regimes of attention, our modes of perception, and the systems of value that shape our relationship with the living world.
At first glance, the works appear to be black monochromes; yet black is entirely absent from the palette. Grounded in an exploration of Prussian blue, this approach reactivates the historical use of the pigment as a colour of shadow and depth. Its reflective qualities, however, introduce a perceptual paradox in which light and invisibility, revelation and erasure, coexist within the same pictorial space.
In these blue monochromes, painting aspires to become a genuine sculpture of light. The textured relief of the surface modulates reflections and conditions the appearance or disappearance of figurative forms according to the viewer’s position and variations in illumination. The image thus oscillates between visibility and dissolution, echoing the fragility of contemporary wildernesses, whose presence appears to be gradually fading while remaining embedded in our collective memory.
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