ELECTRONIC LANDSCAPE
Experimental photography & circuit bending - 2025
Electronic Landscape began through photographs made during walks through ordinary landscapes. Using a small digital camera modified through circuit bending, I interfere directly with the electronic processes involved in producing the image. Colours separate, information shifts, forms stretch and repeat.
What interests me is the encounter between a real territory and the technological system used to represent it. Photography often makes us forget the apparatus between ourselves and the world. Here, the malfunction makes it visible again: the camera leaves traces of its own behaviour across the photograph and begins to participate in the construction of the landscape.
Over the years, I have modified several cameras, but only a few have become instruments I continue to work with. Electronic Landscape was produced with a different camera from the one I frequently use for projects such as Black Sun, and its particular behaviour creates an entirely different visual language. This made me realise that the presence of a glitch is not enough. A technically interesting malfunction does not necessarily produce an image that feels vibrant, strange or worth entering.
This leaves me with a question I still cannot really answer: what makes a glitch beautiful? I can modify the camera and provoke instability, but I cannot entirely determine what it will produce. The machine generates possibilities; I photograph, observe and select among them. Somewhere between technological accident and human judgement.
The series gradually shifted my attention from what a landscape looks like towards another question: what happens when the camera stops being a transparent tool and begins to participate in the construction of the territory it represents?
