TITLE: Abyssurbs II

Areas, more or less, of large numbers of people and collective buildings that are occupied densely, and that humans organize and use to make their lives according to a social structure have developed a new economic and cultural dynamic (many times a hostile environment by adverse climatic elements), this results in the individual not being able sustain its usual appearance, leading to situations of discomfort, restlessness, recollection, distancing, uncertainty, bewilderment and loneliness.

AUTHOR: Daniel Agra (Spain)

Expanded poetics of perception, memory, and territory

Daniel Agra puts forward a photographic proposal with a recognizable identity, investigative coherence, and a clear drive to move beyond representation and into perceptual experience. His main contribution lies in that in-between zone where photography, abstraction and visual poetry cease to function as separate categories.

His work is especially well suited to exhibitions devoted to contemporary photography, abstraction, expanded landscape, territorial memory, or new approaches to the photographic image. The international scope of his career and his presence in institutional and private collections reinforce this suitability, but they should not be the main argument for valuing his work. What truly matters is the progressive construction of a language of his own, one that defines his practice as a poetics of transformation: taking fragments of the physical world and turning them into open images, in which visible matter acts as the trigger for an inner experience.

In this sense, he uses photography not only to show what exists, but also to explore what reality can come to mean once it passes through subjectivity. This is where the core interest of his work lies, and also its potential within the landscape of contemporary photography.