Monoprints on paper 12×16″ (1993)
All images 10×12″ monoprint on paper
The series “Virginia-La Pampa” proposes an exploration of subjective spaces through the combination of landscapes from my native Argentina (La Pampa region being the flat, agricultural landscape that surrounds Buenos Aires, the capital) and from Virginia, where I was living and where the series was done. The almost 130 monoprints were made at a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) in 1993.
As the notions of subjectivity and of the subject were challenged by post-structuralist ideas in the late twentieth century, the landscape series propose a rethinking of visual space and a new awareness of its meanings and limitations.
Thus, the landscapes become, in Umberto Eco’s words, “epistemological metaphors,” aiming at a more direct and immediate access to the world they depict and to the ways in which it is depicted.
Gustavo Fares 