Residual energy

What pieces or projects have you been working on lately?
Lately I've been working on a photographic series but mostly on clips and audiovisual materials that explore the emotional architecture of the spaces we activate from the party/rave and nightlife in general. My approach has been to capture the residual energy of places where these ephemeral encounters happen: parties, clubs, houses... any space that is reconfigured and where the body, sound and light coexist in tension. I could say that my most recent work is a kind of research that starts from the minimal light and color as raw material, where each image is born from darkness as a construction.

What did you learn (or unlearn) while working on it?
I have learned that the most visible and evident is not always the most important. I let go of the need for absolute technical control of photography; I accepted blur, noise, overexposure or partial underexposure as valid ways of constructing an image and above all sensations. I forced myself to work almost without light (by personal obligation), to listen to the space and how it acquires life before photographing it, to compose from uncertainty. On a technical level, from the beginning of my career I abandoned the flash as a safe resource to discover how a blue light, a strobe, backlight, shadows or a reflection in a mirror could transmit a more powerful scene.

What words, ideas or emotions were going through your head?
Sound, introspection, absence, darkness, light, vibration, anonymity, trance, fugue, obviously techno. I felt I was photographing moments when something happens but you can't fully define it unless you experience it. I was very interested in the idea of capture without explanation, thinking about light as architecture and space as body: every empty place for example has something to say even without people present.

Were there any conversations, movies, music, or books that made their way into that work?
Yes, I've always been influenced by music and online radio, the films of the Wachowskis, Wong Kar-wai and the work of Japanese photographers in general, where light is more emotional than functional. Musically, I was very influenced by the music of the 90's, 2000's and the current Latin American club culture. In terms of texts I have spent some time focusing on the work of Pedro Lemebel (performance, poetry, chronicle), Enrique Lihn and McKenzie Wark.

Recommend an artist that you follow, that inspires you, and tell us what you like most about their work or the way they work.
I would highly recommend any of the artists I follow in networks and with whom I work or have collaborated and over time have become close friends. I make a mention to the work of the artist, DJ, manager, producer and endless adjectives. Arturo Plascencia aka Bola Disco creator of @prohibidomx and the Ruta Prohibido project. My greatest inspiration comes from the uncertainty that can take a creative idea where the axis is to bet, invest and believe in ideas.