A photographic look at architecture. Esenciales by Lucía Gorostegui

Description of project by Lucía Gorostegui

In the exhibition Esenciales at Madrid's Gärna Art Gallery, architectural photographer Lucía Gorostegui shows, in a plastic way, an interpretation of the work of interior designer Patricia Bustos in Casa Ola. Gorostegui translates architecture through its most artistic profile.

Esenciales Gorostegui transfers her look to architecture revealing the details and emotions that she experiences with the spaces. After a process of abstraction and a return to the essential, the result is elegant and subtle: a series of photographs in different formats and supports that capture ephemeral moments of the domestic architecture of Casa Ola just before the space is inhabited. The photographs show fragments of encounters of materials, lights, and colors that reveal moments of emotion captured in intimate abstractions. The particular sensibility of the author, a physicist by training, with a characteristic gaze on built spaces, can be sensed in them. Gorostegui freezes extracts of the imaginary in Casa Ola.

"With my work I try to transfer to the spectator the emotion of the search, to give credit to his most fleeting perceptions, and to make him feel the abstraction."

Lucía Gorostegui.

The care for details and textures connects both creators. Gorostegui not only captures the essence of Casa Ola through the photographs but also uses materials present in the space and turns them into supports and parts of her work, such as the beach sand mortar of some of the frames and the iridescent paper of the sets of lights. In this way, a delicate dialogue is established between the built house and the photographic portrait, far beyond the mere representation of a projected space. Gorostegui invites us to activate the senses and enjoy the plasticity of architecture as proposed by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space, with light as the main protagonist.

"I understand architecture as canvas and light as a pigment."

Lucía Gorostegui.

This is not the first time that Gorostegui extracts her most personal look on architecture in parallel to her commissioned work as a photographer. Esenciales had its beginnings in the photographic exhibition of the emblematic space Jorge Juan 55 by Paco Alonso, and in the details extracted from the palace of the headquarters of the Fundación Ortega y Gasset rehabilitated by Junquera Arquitectos.

The exhibition at Gärna Art Gallery is part of the Open House Madrid agenda and can be visited until October 7.