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Alejandro Guijarro

Prior to completing his MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art this year, Alejandro Guijarro was a finalist in the Man Photography Prize (2009). By photographing spaces obstructed by fog or pollution Guijarro explores the boundaries between the seen and the unseen, the known and the unknown, the familiar and the foreign - blurring the line between figure and ground. Re-exploring the world under these unfamiliar atmospheric circumstances - blending the domain of earth and sky into each other, the world becomes a boundless totality - re-explored and experienced with all spatial-temporal relations suspended.  Guijarro sets up the contrast and the relationship between seeing and recognizing, proving how one cannot exist without the other.

Mountain |

Photograph

152cm x 120cm

C type print
Edition of 5 and 1 ap

The world that Guijarro’s work depicts is a very particular kind of world. The generalized whiteness forms a backdrop for the narrative, a bleach screen that is very clean, very clear, but also very paradoxical. It’s a world where open is also closed; simplicity is also complicated, where clarity is confusion. Everything you have fails to become, everything you have not, vanishes beyond reach.

£1,500
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