Virtual Landscapes

“Virtual Landscapes” is a series of small transparent clear boxes, over which detailed shapes arise, made out of wires of different thickness, other hardware elements, and red balls. 

Due to the effect of light and physics, when the boxes are appropriately spotlighted, a special effect is created among the shadows of the acrylic box and the shadows reflected by each of its elements, therefore giving greater volume to the pieces and creating an interesting dynamic, where the spectator is confused between what’s real and unreal, between the projected shadows and the real elements.

These pieces play with the concept of virtual reality and try to comment on the notion of what is and what is not, between reality and non-reality, the apparent and the fictitious, trying to establish a dialogue, where reality, space and time are questioned.

In these abstract metallic landscapes, a friction is created between the objects and its shadows, between what’s “fake”, what’s simulated and what’s real, as a metaphor for the tense situations   in life.

I attempt to attract the attention of the spectator and create a different level of consciousness about the environment. Furthermore, I mean to make it possible for the public to enjoy the visual contrasts between what is the artistic work and what is the projection or shadow, between the work that has been “created” and the other, the one resulting from the combustion of the elements of light and physics. 

The red sphere has been present in my work for more than a decade, as an energetic symbol, as a metaphor of life and as a sign of what’s alive.

The red sphere is the metaphor of the journey of man through life; it is life itself, the nucleus and origin of all being.

The sphere presence in this series references the idea that Life is both real and apparent, forever questioning how the journey unravels.