Urban Pareidolias
Hard light is not a preference, it is a method. Full sun forces architecture to declare itself: edges sharpen, recessions deepen, and shadow becomes a second structure moving across the first at its own pace, indifferent to the one watching. I move through the city in a state of deliberate receptivity, music running underneath as a mechanism for suspending editorial judgment, letting perception precede the mind’s tendency to classify and close.
What I collect are not finished images. Incompletion is not a limitation; it is the condition I work toward.
I compose, frame and withdraw. The gesture of making is also a gesture of relinquishment. What remains is a proposition addressed to whoever arrives next: not an object to be decoded but a field to be entered. The work reaches its fullest state only in the act of being seen, and since no two acts of seeing are identical, the image is never the same work twice. The viewer is not interpreter but co-author, the one who makes the last move in a sequence I began. They bring their own unconscious, their own sediment of experience, and in doing so complete something I deliberately left open for exactly that purpose.
This is the line I work along: the image as an open proposition, authorship as a shared and asymmetrical act. One person makes the first move, another makes the last, and between those two moments the work exists in a state of productive suspension.
Exhibitions
HOMA Museum. Seoul, South Korea (2016)
An exceptional convergence of circumstance and artistic vision emerged through an unanticipated competition. This singular photographic work, drawn from an ongoing investigation into urban pareidolia, captures the latent narratives embedded within Berlin’s architectural landscape.
Selected as the sole photographic presence within a curated exhibition at the Homa Museum in Seoul, the work establishes a compelling dialogue between perception and environment, a meditation on how the constructed world reveals itself to the attentive eye.
III International Biennial Art CMUCH, Mexico (2018)
Through an international open competition, I was selected to participate in the III Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo CMUCH. A prestigious exhibition that traveled across multiple Mexican cities before culminating in Mexico City.
I participated with three unseen photographs from my Urban Pareidolias series, in which the urban landscape becomes a site of suspended meaning. These images resist a singular reading, surrendering their final interpretation entirely to the beholder, each work completed by whoever stands before it.
To have these pieces received in such a culturally significant context, and ultimately celebrated in Mexico City, remains one of the most meaningful milestones of my artistic practice.
Monday Studio, Copenhagen (2022)
To commemorate the publication of Volume F81BA7 of the prestigious journal curated by Monday Studio gallery in Copenhagen, an inaugural exhibition was organized, bringing together a distinguished assembly of avant-garde artists whose seminal works were prominently featured within the publication.
The carefully curated exhibition, developed in dialogue with the journal’s new edition, was mounted in October 2022, providing an immersive platform through which to explore the conceptual and aesthetic preoccupations of the featured artists.
Atelier Cebola, Lisboa (2024)
The prestigious Atelier Cebola in Lisbon expressed a keen interest in featuring a curated selection of photographs from my ongoing urban pareidolia series — a body of work in which the hidden faces and figures concealed within the textures, shadows, and structures of the city are revealed through a deliberate and contemplative photographic gaze.
My work was incorporated into their exclusive Christmas exhibition of 2024, an carefully orchestrated showcase that brought together a thoughtfully assembled collection of pieces and artists hailing from diverse corners of the world. The selection reflected a profound commitment to artistic plurality, weaving together distinct visual languages and cultural sensibilities into a cohesive and evocative whole.
