Carlos Garcia Martinez

Carlos García Martínez, Spain; 1992
Student at Blankpaper School of photograpgy in Madrid.
[email protected];
www.carlosgarciamartinez.com;
My project Ciudad Real (“Real City”, 2015) explores the capacity of the photographic medium as a constructor of spaces, and thus, its potential power to
construct or validate realities. Suddenly after its been presented -yet put into
question visually-, the illusion of the pictoric space (a house, a road, a world)
starts to collapse into its plastic space, untill this one takes out all the potential
narrative power. Then, we are left empty, with nothing but a surface with nothing behind it, in a inarticulated space which has been artificially condensed and
reconstructed in a formal way. This surface is all about seduction, as it uses the
mecanisms that photography uses to evoke spaces -just that there is nothing
to evoke here-. Now then, I am not talking here about one particular world or
another, but rather how that very same representational act takes place in our
minds.
This state of the art is what Malevich adresses as Inobjectivity, as its formal expression is known as Suprematism, in which form becomes independent from
the pictoric or representional process to adress directly to reality and nature
again (form, geometry, space, rythm, matter). The white box here acts as the
single unit of “space reality” (just as Malevich’s white square), where reality and
representation have been unified once again. But then again, behind all the
multiple spacial options combined and unified, we are left with nothing but
seduction, once again. After all, this space is rather like a white canvas that is
waiting for the viewer to proyect himself in it.
Format: A3, 20 single pages
Copyright by Carlos García
En el extenso espacio de la solemnidad cósmica instalé
el mundo blanco de la inobjetividad suprematista
como manifestación de la nada liberada.
K. Malevich
real
ciudad