Windows 1003 employs repetitive facade photography to capture building as infinite reticle of uniform cells—each containing concept of unifying human-world relationship or rather, removing all individuality and converting human into robot destined to repeat daily work inside cell until death. Rey explores how architectural repetition reflects dehumanizing systems. The work reveals tension between inhabitant impulses to "personalize" landscape and facade uniformity that resists individual expression through standardized cellular grid.
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.
Repetitive facade photography capturing infinite cellular grid—architectural system removing human individuality. Windows 1003 from A Thousand Windows by Javier Rey. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.
Repetitive Facade Photography – Windows 1003 from A Thousand Windows by Rey
Windows 1003, 2018
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.
