Wreck

“Wreck Beach is a recent body of work by Avelina Crespo that consists of photographs of landscapes taken with the interference of plastic. Its project is concerned with how we interpret and understand the world through images. As such, it takes an interest in how photography can be used to construct a specific reality, and how that reality ‘speaks back’ through the medium. As both a visual and metaphorical element, the plastic is not merely a ‘filter’ between what is and what could be (seen), but more profoundly it is a visual element as obstacle, one that both modifies the appearance of something and the ways in which appearance itself is literalized (as metaphor).

The concern of these photographs is to allude to the impossibility of seeing. Their aim is to obstruct the view, and to make metaphoric this obstruction, as literal. They present perception of a reality that can no longer be straightforward, where it is difficult to understand what is in front, what is ahead. The result is a derangement in a medium, one analogous to the future, as a form of testimonial to it. The images both negate an idea of progress, while bringing us to its most intimate moment.”

Graham Gilles