The reification of space

The search for a dialogue with the landscape is a topic running through most of Aleix Plademunt’s work. As in the series “Espactadors” in which the Spanish photographer through the installation of allegorical audiences on a large scale shows the need to return our gaze on what surround us and, therefore, to establish a new relationship with the environment. Or in “Nada” in which, in a paroxysmic and absolute way, he denies the excess of visual stimuli that saturate the possibilities of communication in public space, filling it with multiform, colorful and often unnecessary appearances. More brazen and irreverent the “Dubailand” project, a frank and true parody of the controversial development in the Middle East, that immediately transmits a sense of tolerance and disgust for the total lack of aesthetics and the exhausting effort to rebuild artificial ecosystems in order to satisfy the most unscrupulous desires of entertainment. However we are far from the iconographic or descriptive tradition of the landscape. There is neither resentment nor nostalgia in the work of Plademont, rather the attempt to seize back at least metaphorically that dimension, space, often contaminated and misused by excessive as schizophrenic transformations.

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