I See a Melting Window
2023 - current
Best of Graduates 2024
Galerie Ron Mandos
Credits Jonathan de Waart
Best of Graduates 2024
Galerie Ron Mandos
Credits Jonathan de Waart
Graduation Show 2024
Royal Acaddemy of Art
Graduation Show 2024
Royal Acaddemy of Art
Graduation Show 2024
Royal Acaddemy of Art
Graduation Show 2024
Royal Acaddemy of Art
Selected for Best of Graduates 2024, Gallery Ron Mandos
I See a Melting Window captures human interaction with their environment through the photographic medium.
Photographs and moving images are combined into a dialogue. With a background in biology, Mayte precisely examines her surroundings. Small encounters become part of a larger ecosystem of images, allowing an interplay of associations to form.
Flattened into two dimensions, she analyses the relationship between humans and their environment, invisible biological processes, and the element of time. Delicate forms are reproduced, reinterpreted, and reconsidered, like the cracks in a butterfly’s wings or melting star-shaped ice cubes in a glass. Each image becomes a window into a new reality. In a universe of daydreams and routines, built upon fast-paced efficiency, she attentively watches slices of life unfold.
By employing techniques such as enlarging, zooming in, and framing within the photographic body of work, I extend this defamiliarization approach to the presentation. The wall acts as a classical passe partout, typically used as a protective framing style for images. It focuses the viewer’s attention on specific points while creating the illusion of the images continuing behind the wall. Due to its size, it also resembles multiple windows cut on a 45-degree angle. The images interact, creating new associations and dialogues like an ecosystem.