Entrelazar 202 captures personalization resistance photography—documenting inhabitant impulses to break facade uniformity while architectural system resists individual expression. Rey reveals tension between human desire to personalize landscape cell and building structure that maintains dehumanizing repetition. The work shows how new reflective window facades intensify this resistance: not only does cellular grid convert humans into robots, but mirrored glass subtracts even attempted personalization, hiding everything behind reflective surface that shows only surroundings.
The series, Entrelazar, is based on the selection of an urban element, the lamppost: a vertical element that rises above the urban landscape and is repeated in the city of Bogotá. The artist carries out the study where he allows the object to display its parts and generate a tangle of lines, knots, and even points that accumulate in layers to create a new landscape system.”
Personalization resistance photography documenting tension between inhabitant expression and architectural uniformity. Entrelazar 202 by Javier Rey. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.
Personalization Resistance Photography – Entrelazar 202 by Javier Rey
Entrelazar 202, 2020
From The Series Entrelazar
Archival Pigment Print, Fine Art Paper (Giclée)
Dimensions: 50 H x 39 W cm.
Edition of 6 + 1AP
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.
