JOSE DE SANCRISTOBAL
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He studied Architecture (CEDIM, Monterrey) and later Architectural Lighting Design (UNAM, Mexico City). His primary medium is the intervention of in-situ architectural spaces, frequently resulting in satellite pieces such as models, studio drawings, and paintings. His work revolves around three main axes: light, architecture, and the city. These three themes result in pieces that question the relativity of observation and the experience of the inhabitant of built spaces. His work has been exhibited in Mexico and the United States of America. In 2016, he won the lighting research competition "The Light Symposium Paper Competition" for the research "City Image and Light Pollution," organized by the University of Applied Sciences, Technology, Business and Design in Wismar, Germany. The installation in the room, “at first they are unsteady and shapeless (hmmmm)”, is a compilation of pictures and vinyls that pretends to resemble diagrams, notes, or disperse writings. With the intention of being read in different directions, the installation grows from a playful and impossible speculation (how would a picture be of what we see when we close our eyes?) To combine different phrases, drawings and images that at the end could function as a reflection about the relation between images and words. The piece outside, Untitled (window), uses a mirror to reflect on the wall a figure of a window, creating a shimmer of light where there’s none to be found. The window appears at sunset, and circles ideas of the memory of a place, the poetry of the ordinary, and the manifestation of the inmaterial in the material.
The installation in the room, “at first they are unsteady and shapeless (hmmmm)”, is a compilation of pictures and vinyls that pretends to resemble diagrams, notes, or disperse writings. With the intention of being read in different directions, the installation grows from a playful and impossible speculation (how would a picture be of what we see when we close our eyes?) To combine different phrases, drawings and images that at the end could function as a reflection about the relation between images and words. The piece outside, Untitled (window), uses a mirror to reflect on the wall a figure of a window, creating a shimmer of light where there’s none to be found. The window appears at sunset, and circles ideas of the memory of a place, the poetry of the ordinary, and the manifestation of the inmaterial in the material. La instalación en la habitación, at first they are unsteady and shapeless (hmmmm), se conforma de fotografías y viniles de recorte que en conjunto pretenden asemejar diagramas, notas, o apuntes dispersos. Con la intención de ser leída en distintas direcciones, la instalación se origina a partir de una especulación lúdica e imposible (¿cómo sería una fotografía de lo que vemos al cerrar los ojos?) para combinar distintas frases, dibujos e imágenes que al final podrían funcionar como una reflexión respecto a la relación entre imágenes y palabras. La pieza en el exterior, Sin título (ventana), hace uso de un espejo para reflejar en la pared una figura de una ventana, generando una entrada (de luz) donde no se encuentra una. La ventana aparece al atardecer, en el breve lapso de la puesta de sol, y circunda ideas con respecto a la memoria de un lugar, la poética de lo cotidiano, y la manifestación de lo inmaterial en lo material.
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