Venice from London – London from Venice
2024
Two framed opposing postcards.
20,5 x 40,8 cm.
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Venice from London – London from Venice (2024) is part of a series of works in which the relationship between the landscapes we inhabit and our perception of territory is explored. This project is connected to my series of works Local Color is a Foreign Invention where I study the nuances of the sky in different geographical areas based on historical artistic representations, linking diverse artists and periods, and addressing themes such as identity, colonialism, and climate change.
The piece is a juxtaposition of two images within the same frame, aligned on the horizontal axis, creating a visual dialogue between two geographically displaced views. On the left, we find a veduta by the Italian painter Canaletto, created during his stay in England in the mid-18th century: London: The Thames from Somerset House Terrace towards Westminster (1750-51). On the right, a view painted by the British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner nearly a century later: Venice from the Giudecca (1840).
The visual displacement is twofold. Each painting reflects the city of the “other,” although both retain elements of the native landscape from which each artist originates. This exchange of perspectives suggests that the environment in which we grow up inevitably influences the way we see the world. The decision to use postcards as the medium reinforces the idea of displaced places, constantly in motion and reinterpretation.
Exhibitions:
· Local Colour is a Foreign Invention [El color local es un invento extranjero] (solo exhibition). PHotoESPAÑA Festival 2024 – Sala de exposiciones ‘Las Francesas’ (Valladolid, 2024).
· Rutas relacionales (group exhibition). Cur. Javier Martín-Jiménez. Galería Lucía Mendoza (Madrid, 2024).
Credits:
Venice from London – London from Venice (2024). 20,5 x 40,8 cm.
Image: Víctor Hugo Martín Caballero.
Detail.
Canaletto (Giovanni Giovanni Antonio Canal), 1697–1768. London: The Thames from Somerset House Terrace towards Westminster (1750-1). Royal Collection of the United Kingdom.
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1697–1768. Venice from the Giudecca (1755-1851). Victoria & Albert Museum.
· Local Colour is a Foreign Invention [El color local es un invento extranjero] (solo exhibition). PHotoESPAÑA Festival 2024 – Sala de exposiciones ‘Las Francesas’ (Valladolid, 2024).
· Rutas relacionales (group exhibition). Cur. Javier Martín-Jiménez. Galería Lucía Mendoza (Madrid, 2024).
Credits:
Venice from London – London from Venice (2024). 20,5 x 40,8 cm.
Image: Víctor Hugo Martín Caballero.
Detail.
Canaletto (Giovanni Giovanni Antonio Canal), 1697–1768. London: The Thames from Somerset House Terrace towards Westminster (1750-1). Royal Collection of the United Kingdom.
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1697–1768. Venice from the Giudecca (1755-1851). Victoria & Albert Museum.
