Biography
Landscape, understood as an indissoluble part of what we are, is essential in all my work. It interest me not only from an ecological reading, as the experience of inhabiting the universe, space whose annihilation is our own self-destruction, but also, and above all, the return to nature as a source of truth and beauty, as a political legitimation of the Human, as a simple and powerful revolution. Special attention to the ecstatic relationship between men and world. Despite control desires of men, landscape is an element that we dispossess.
My photography is halfway through documentary, fantastic and experimentation. I photograph reality to make it to go beyond reality but through itself, without tricks or interventions.
I believe in the aesthetic experience as a transformer of consciousness. There is a deep personal desire to improve the immediate present to alleviate a characteristic material dissatisfaction. Here, individual feelings become universal. In my work there is no experimentation, but experience. My work does not seek to expose the problems in the universe. It doesn't intend to be science, it prefers to accept the unusual and the unknown, intensifying the individual effort. Search the "Poetic Image" understood "sudden highlight of the psyche" (G. Bachelard).
My pictures have a pictorial aesthetic to emphasize the idea of landscape built through the gaze. The camera works as a brush that paints life but without its triviality. Remoteness, with the intention of blur, flees the sharpness to bring me closer to elementary forms. The characters are part of the scenery and get lost in it. They are no more than nature in relation to more nature.
Carla Andrade
