Category: Creación
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Black Gold
‘Black Gold’. Material archive, Iceland. Photography, Juan A. Esteban. Volcanic rock is not a landscape; it is infrastructure. Comprehending its porosity, its weight, and its geological memory is the indispensable prerequisite to any transdisciplinary intervention. The ontology of the work commences with the assumption that raw matter imposes its own rules.
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My skin
‘My skin’. Bodily archive / Cartography of origin. Photography, Juan A. Esteban. Malaka in Phoenician script upon the skin. The memory of the city inscribed on the body, understood not as adornment, but as a territory of ancestral belonging and material rootedness.
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Limited shelf life
‘Limited expiry’. Visual archive / Fieldwork. Photography, Juan A. Esteban. Art no longer requires perfection; it requires inevitability. The perfect may be admired; the inevitable matters and endures.
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Sister of Night
«Sister of Night». Archivo matérico. Fotografía, Juan A. Esteban.La oscuridad no es la ausencia de materia, sino una densidad diferente. La luz aquí no ilustra el paisaje; lo recorta y lo impone. El observador se convierte en una pausa necesaria frente al límite de lo visible.
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Red night
‘Red night’. Material archive / Abstraction. Acrylic on board, Juan A. Esteban. Painting does not represent tension; it contains it. The red pigment does not operate here as colour, but as mass, friction, and material weight. An exploration of how matter organises itself around a breaking point.
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Defined, yet not visible
‘Defined, yet not visible’. Visual archive. Photography, Juan A. Esteban. The spectator’s body interrupts the work and, in doing so, becomes part of its visual infrastructure. In the contemporary exhibition space, observing is never a passive act; it is a form of spatial intervention.
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War Games
‘War Games’. Visual archive / Fieldwork. Photography, Juan A. Esteban. Not everything that rises is growth. The tension between organic form, material anomaly, and the monumental occupation of public space.
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May it never conclude or may it end for all time
‘May it never end or finish forever’. Visual archive / Fieldwork. Photography, Juan A. Esteban. Movement not as simple displacement, but as structural resistance against the void. Trajectory and repetition transformed into the only visible infrastructure when spatial references disappear.