Unión 1 positions nude landscape photography as integration—human figure inhabiting green mountain terrain alongside grazing cattle, dissolving boundaries between body and pastoral environment. The work explores union not through corporeal entanglement but through solitary figure's relationship with natural landscape. Rey frames the nude body as element within ecosystem rather than subject dominating it, suggesting vulnerability and belonging within mountainous pastoral setting.
Unión landscape Photography captivates with its intricate interplay of light and shadow, embodying the essence of nature's tranquility.
Nude landscape photography integrating human figure into pastoral mountain terrain—body as element within natural ecosystem. Unión 1 by Javier Rey. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.
Nude Landscape Photography – Unión 1, by Javier Rey
Unión 1, 2014
From The Series Unión
Archival Pigment Print, Color Edition
Limited Edition.
Unframed
Javier Rey is a Colombian artist and photographer. His work has been shown in many collective exhibitions, solo exhibitions, and several international art fairs such as ArtLima (Peru), Scope Art Fair (Miami), and La Feria Del Millón (Colombia). Rey's work has also appeared in books such as "Unlocked", by the Greek collective Atopos, and was chosen as one of the 145 most relevant visual artists and photographers on the web in 2015. His work have been featured in several publications in Colombia, the USA, Mexico, Germany, Spain, Denmark, and other countries.
