Along the edges.

To fix the precise moment that lies between the eye and interpretation of reality. It seems to be the intention of Carlos Albalá, Madrid based photographer with some past studies in psychology, and maybe it is no coincidence. A landscape so strongly human as the outskirts, “submitted – to use the words of Albalá – to an aesthetics of the uncertainty”, it becomes different only by taking a step aside and just unhinge references and details, necessary for a comfortable understanding of the daily reality. Just along “the edges of the city where the agonizing nature is reinvented every day and gives way to movement of land or abandoned organic debris”, where “the mist mixes with the environment and momentarily dances with the transitory neobucolic landscape, in an aesthetic game”, we can discover a new dimension of a space that returns its urban identity in the most essential of perception, as misled by a vague memory or a joke of the mind, in a constant game of mirrors.

Photo:

© Courtesy of Carlos Albalá

www.carlosalbala.com

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