In this geographic cyanotype landscape photography, coordinates 28° 14' 22.942'' N anchor the work to a precise Pacific territory while the image dissolves cartographic certainty into atmospheric indigo depth. Water operates as medium and performer, activating organic marine fragments that leave direct traces on sensitized cotton paper. Rather than mapping, the work proposes landscape as tactile memory—cold ocean presence absorbed into emulsion, site specificity transformed into sensory imprint that contemplation slowly reveals.
Water is constant in the artist's visual investigation, for her water is no longer the stage in which the body's memory bursts, but rather the environment and protagonist, constant operator of the image, water reveals, unveils, performs. The landscape is recorded by direct contact with the paper and the sensitive emulsion, and in this case, organic matter and the vestige of living organisms inhabit it. That is, there is no representation, but rather its direct presence as part of the work. It is almost dramaturgy, a high-sounding discussion with the visual arts, the history of Landscaping is overturned.
Collect this geographic cyanotype landscape photography where Pacific coordinates dissolve into organic blue imprint. From Mareas by Paola Dávila. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.
Geographic Cyanotype Landscape Photography by Paola Dávila
28° 14' 22.942'' N, 114° 6' 4.129'' W-6. 2022
From the series Mareas
Cyanotype on 300 gr cotton paper
Image size: 60 H x 114 W cm.
Unique
Unframed
Signed by the artist
Paola Dávila was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 1980. She studied Visual Arts at the National School of Plastic Arts of Mexico, where she attended the contemporary painting seminar. He also attended theory and photography workshops. In 2002, he received the National Photography Prize at the Yucatan Visual Arts Biennial, the Acquisition Prize at the IV Libertad de Arte Contest, and the state scholarship for Jovenes Creadores FOECA from the state of Oaxaca. It has nine individual exhibitions and more than 30 collective exhibitions both in Mexico and abroad. During 2010 he received the Tierney Grant awarded by the Tierney Foundation of New York for the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Photographic Center to carry out the Temporary Interiors project. He has been a beneficiary of the Young Creators Program, FONCA, in 2003, 2006 and 2011. In 2014 he received the Scholarship for Artistic Exchanges and Residencies, FONCA-Land Salzburg of Austria, thanks to which he started the Schrebergarten project. In 2017 the City of Oaxaca awarded her the degree of Distinguished Citizen, in recognition of her artistic career. In 2019 he obtained the title of Master of Visual Arts from UNAM with honorable mention. In 2021 he won the acquisition prize at the XIX National Photography Biennial, organized by the Image Center. Since 2020 he is a member of the National System of Art Creators, FONCA, CONACULTA.
