Banks, Michael
Photography, when it was invented, liberated painting from its historical responsibility of representation. But at this same moment, photography trapped itself in a rigid structure, defined by the need for truth, realism,
and technical detail. For me, there is no need for photography to show the real, seen world. For me it has to be abstract. We now have other technologies available to capture the real, physical world.
I have always explored the possibilities of abstraction, questioning and challenging the objectivity considered a fundamental characteristic of the photographic medium, questioning the traditional definitions that have forced upon photography anachronistic limitations. I have abandoned the idea of the use of photography to capture images based on readable reality.
My creative process is in two parts: It could be said that in the first place, abstraction transforms the physical into the non-physical (abstracting and idealizing an object), and that following that, concretion transforms the non-physical into the physical (concretising and making physical an idea ). And so this Concrete Photography is the final manifestation of Abstract Photography. Photography as Physical Object.
In my works, I attempt to exteriorise my interior world, and to create images, feelings and universes that have no connection to objective reality, in this way communicating more than just facts. The magic of the invisible, present in the real world. A visual pleasure. Liberating Photography.