Windows 2007 captures reflective window facade photography—new building form where glass hides everything behind mirrored surface, becoming reflection of surroundings while subtracting inhabitants' impulse to personalize landscape. Rey reveals how reflective facades intensify dehumanization: not only do repetitive cells convert humans into robots repeating daily work until death, but mirrored glass eliminates even individual attempts to break uniformity, creating pure exterior that reflects only what surrounds building rather than revealing life within.
A Thousand Windows is an exploration of building facades that become infinite reticles of repetitive cells, which contain in them the concept of unifying the relationship of the human with the world, or rather, a way of removing all individuality and converting the human in a robot destined to repeat his work daily inside his cell until his death. The uniformity of these cells is broken by the impulse of each inhabitant to seek to "personalize" their landscape, all this subtracted by the new form of facades with reflective windows that hide everything and become a reflection of what surrounds these buildings.
Reflective window facade photography where mirrored glass hides personalization—pure exterior reflecting surroundings. Windows 2007 from A Thousand Windows by Javier Rey. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.
Reflective Window Facade Photography – Windows 2007, A Thousand Windows by Rey
Window 2007, 2020
From The Series A Thousand Windows
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.
