SCOTOPHORUS

The triptych that forms the work called Scotophorus is the result of research into the historical and material relationships between photography and drawing. We reappropriate a tradition that relates the photographic image as a drawing (or engraving), as in the pictorialists, and also in Talbot, Lazló-Moholy Nagy or Man Ray, among others. The Greek name Scotophorus (bringer of darkness) was used by Johan Heimich Schulze in 1725 to define the process of darkening silver, a fundamental element whose blackening allowed the permanent fixation of the action of light on a surface. In Scotophorus, we have the representation of luminous edges, large scale drawings (240x180 cm), reinterpretations of photograms printed by the author himself