Blasco's new large-scale architectural environment is an impressive structure that merges conceptual and physical spaces, actively encouraging viewers to become adventurous participants. Above and Under L-Train’ invites the audience to ponder the complexities of systems hidden beneath the surface. It strives to capture the disorienting appearance of integration of visceral forces that may not be easily perceivable and create an atmosphere of uncertainty.
Artist Statement by Isidro Blasco
Process
Isidro Blasco combines architecture, photography, and installation to explore physical and psychological terrains. Blasco uses digital images and building materials to create large- and small-scale architectural environments and three-dimensional reconstructions of neighborhoods, producing snapshots of cityscapes that play with perception. Beginning with a viewpoint of a building, or an interior or exterior space, Blasco takes photographs and pieces together images into photo-sculptures, reminiscent of Cubist collages with their multitudes of angles. Blasco’s slight distortions of perspective produce scenes that can appear both recognizable and unfamiliar.
“I connect my experience as an outsider who walks the streets and interacts with the city with my more intimate feelings about closed and private spaces,” he says.
