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The "Uncanny Places" project is settled upon the expressive ambiguity of certain images. In a dialogue between me and the external world, driven by an enquire on the complexity of the world, this project moves towards introspection. It is between opposite poles – logic and magic, the rationality and irrationality  –   that I intend to work. I consider that some of these images seem to relate to a seemingly obscure archive of our unconscious memories.  

Uncanny Places enhances different trajectories, which correlate practical and symbolic actions with several frameworks and signifiers – awe, fear, memory, myth, fantasy – and which I try to recreate visually.  It is in a casual but intuitive way that I move through apparently common places, with no compass; this deliberate aimlessness paves the way for moments of serendipity. 

A double-exposure is intentionally used, in a very short time-span, in the same image, for the same occurrence. This is to create a notion of continuity between “there” and “here”, where two  points in time overlap in the same place. The presence of the two physical and chronological layers in the same image mesh into diaphanous lights and ethereal atmospheres; this visual effect contradicts the ordinary flow of perception. 

I started this series in 2007 and I have been pursuing it in some cities in Europe, the United States, China and Russia. Aiming at a rigorous work and without resorting to digital manipulation, images were taken in medium format with the use of reversal film, the analogical adding to the mystery of these images.