Sachiyo Nishimura

In a meticulous and orderly montage, the artist insists on the same model: all the forms correspond to empty train stations, where the gaze is focused on the framework of power lines, towers and poles against an illuminated sky, some meters above the train tracks, configuring grid patterns, demarcations and geometric forms. In the background, the urban constructions emerge, grey and anonymous. In diptychs in which photographs playfully pretend to be identical, the second image is subtly transformed through croppings and certain transpositions of figurative elements. In other renditions, the author dispenses with the context and only frames the sky delineated by the power lines and the straight lines, repeating the shot with certain variations in several modules that are combined within the polyptych. The photograph becomes a graphic and abstract work, in which the city no longer exists and there are only pure lines that project themselves, spiraling towards the infinite whose presence we imagine. The Chilean artist based in London has devoted herself for the past ten years to the urban landscape, and for the past four years to graphic reconfigurations in which she has even traced grid patterns that fuse with the power line networks, deceiving the eye. Other strategies include recordings, but also clipping, technical intervention and the hand itself. The images of the city are delicately manipulated. The urban landscape is thus transformed into fiction, and the experience of photography is an invitation to expand the gaze and not be content with seeing only once.