Spectral Lantern (1994)

The installation is centred around a suspended volume, akin to a photographic paper aerostat, representing my projected silhouette in dialogue with inverted religious paintings. In the background, I assembled three large grids of head-to-tail trapezoids. These grids are composed not only of photographs but also of reflective steel plates and glossy papers in shades of yellow, ochre, and brown, recalling the accidental tonalities of analogue photography. These images are not exclusively my own; in the manner of the found footage technique, they derive from varied sources, including nineteenth-century photographs and analogue television screens with their characteristic electronic “snow”. By combining such diverse materials and sources, I sought to create a coherent environment that recycles and reassembles images, while evoking the very nature of photography, with its metallic components and imperfections, as a source of visual meditation on memory and the reinterpretation of images