Luisa Lambri
Untitled (Casa das Canoas, #12), 2003
chromogenic print
99 x 115 cm.
39 x 45 1/4 in.
39 x 45 1/4 in.
Lambri uses photography to investigate the relationships people have between subjective experience and architectural space. She does this by photographing, not the identifiable views, that make the space iconic, but...
Lambri uses photography to investigate the relationships people have between subjective experience and architectural space. She does this by photographing, not the identifiable views, that make the space iconic, but the idiosyncrasies of the space, the features of a space that may be insignificant. A shot will often be taken again and again, in order to shift the lighting in each one, to give a sense of how the space is a living thing and changes throughout the day.
Lambri s photographs often record doors and windows, which signify a boundary between inside and outside of both significant historical and contemporary architects. Lambri see s her work as looking at loss, where a space that we become attached to, can be simplified and abstracted through a photograph where the shape and elements of a room are isolated. Her images are highly subjective responses to the Modernist ethos as evoked in the buildings.
Casa das Canoas is a landmark residence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, built by Oscar Niemeyer. It is made of concrete, steel and glass and it cuts through tropical forest that fills the surrounding mountains. The mountainous landscape and forest engulf the building as it sits on top of a large rock protruding from the mountain. Lambri photographed this building to compliment the modernist grid , which is free from nature, the human form and life itself. A ghostly quality bathes the sequence of images that are recorded with varying light conditions. The trees compliment the orthogonal quality of the build, photographically. The surrounding forest provides curvilinear quality to the building as its backdrop. Cold steel frames the natural quality of the trees.
Lambri s photographs often record doors and windows, which signify a boundary between inside and outside of both significant historical and contemporary architects. Lambri see s her work as looking at loss, where a space that we become attached to, can be simplified and abstracted through a photograph where the shape and elements of a room are isolated. Her images are highly subjective responses to the Modernist ethos as evoked in the buildings.
Casa das Canoas is a landmark residence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, built by Oscar Niemeyer. It is made of concrete, steel and glass and it cuts through tropical forest that fills the surrounding mountains. The mountainous landscape and forest engulf the building as it sits on top of a large rock protruding from the mountain. Lambri photographed this building to compliment the modernist grid , which is free from nature, the human form and life itself. A ghostly quality bathes the sequence of images that are recorded with varying light conditions. The trees compliment the orthogonal quality of the build, photographically. The surrounding forest provides curvilinear quality to the building as its backdrop. Cold steel frames the natural quality of the trees.
Provenance
The artist
Exhibitions
Madrid, Ivory Press, Interiors , May-July 2011