“…The materiality of an idea is not the final objective of a produced work as much as it is its framing; its portrait. Just like in the classical instantaneous picture: its exact moment.” This is how the photographer’s work is described by the curator of the exhibit Borja Cassani.

The melancholy of the effect of black and white becomes the scenery in which Chema Madoz experiments with the image. As response to the bilateral foreign relations between Russia and Spain 2011, the Moscow House of Photography shows the Spaniard’s work between the period where he won the Premio Nacional de Fotografía 2000 and the year 2005.

He works with anything he can experiment with, using symmetrical frames and different perspectives to observe a mere object. It is an unreal world that, despite being a constructed image, it is portrayed with the same simplicity that is expressed in analogue photography. He searches for the relationship between objects from our day to day and the meanings they take when they are misplaced or interpreted in a different way.

From a technical point of view, Madoz works with shadows and Light influenced by avant-garde movements, Dadaism and Surrealism. They are described as still-lives inspired by the work of Man Ray or Marcel Duchamp.

The exhibition will remain open in Moscow until the 28th of August. Ana Rodríguez-Andía

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