The basic geometry of a structure appears suspended in the space, like a cut-out that, rather than defining the place, ‘undefines’ it to make it pure form. The chiaroscuro outlines it without concession to the surrounding circumstances or definition of context, belonging, environment. The outline has an eastern appearance, despite being almost banal. The two disparate main volumes enliven the space of the image, capturing the gaze in an alternating but complementary way and establishing the meeting point or transition between the two as one that plays with equilibrium and our sense of a structural solidity unthreatened by aesthetic delicacy. The other elements, a bench at the bottom or a vaguely perceptible glazed wall at the top, are subsumed by the centrality of that structure.

Leonor Nazaré
Curator at the CAM