STATEMENT

In my work I am interested in giving life to abandoned or decaying spaces and objects. Someone left that space and something of him stayed there. Since I was a child, I liked hidden and mysterious spaces, observing old objects and photos, at my grandparents' house, and imagining where they came from or who they were.

I am interested in painting, as it looks aesthetically, so I create pictorial images. I see the work of painters like Degas, Remedios Varo, Rafael Cauduro as inspiration.

Photography allows me to form timeless images. I seek to confuse the viewer through the use of long exposures, desaturating the images, sometimes indirectly photographing shadows and reflections. If I can see it in my imagination, I can carry it out.

In my work it is common to find the trail of dancers in motion, an old door or window, a broken and moldy wall, integrating the subjects as part of the space where they are. I am passionate about building scenarios. I seek that these images invite to be examined through an emotional as well as visual contemplation and that from their beauty the observer finds another sense of the incredible world that surrounds us.

Rosi Calderon Visual artist