ÂPEX Is a generative landscape art project responding to the conditions of the Anthropocene, where the lines between what is possible and what is only imagined are constantly shifting. Simplified circles give way to hyperreal spaces and it is unclear whether at any point in the transition they resemble a landscape that one could actually inhabit.

At what point do abstract shapes start to resemble believable environments? Each viewer may experience this work differently, depending on where they draw the line between realism and abstraction, natural form, reality and fantasy. While landscape art is traditionally understood to represent natural forms, it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish between the natural and manufactured.

When the code runs its course and a static picture emerges, a thin barrier seems to be crossed. The work tests out the limits between reality and hyperrealism, between abstraction and surrealism, blurring distinctions between them.

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CLOUD, CONTINENT, ISLAND (2010)

Cloud, Continent, Island is a series created with a script run on raw image files to extract sequential frames with a high-contrast curve. Initially made as prints in 2010, these works can be seen as landscape studies that expand the boundaries of the photographic medium, from sky to earth without passing through a horizon line. Compositions #3 to #7 used the script outputs as 4K short films, and are part of More Abstract, a solo show presented at Portas Vilaseca.