DANIEL AGRA
El Jardín de Entelequia

Both what is synthetic and artificial is omnipresent in our daily lives and has devastating effects among us and the ecosystem, its consequences last thousands of years before they disappear… why not imagine nature’s rebellion … why not imagine the transmutation of matter.

The Garden of Entelechy is the prelude of the metamorphosis that contradicts the laws of nature. What once was inert begins a journey whose final destination is its existence as a living being.

Author
poetics of perception, memory, and territory

Daniel Agra approaches photography as one might work a material: he does not seek to represent water, stone, architecture, or cloud, but to touch them until they cease to be identifiable and become surface, texture, density. This tactile attentiveness is not incidental; it emerges from decades spent in the world of fashion and raw materials, long before that same sensibility migrated into the photographic gesture. His photography therefore does not document the world; it dismantles it to the point where the viewer stops asking what they are looking at and begins asking what it makes them feel. This shift—from recognition to experience—runs through projects as diverse as the Galician landscape, the sky, and the contemporary city, and it is here, in the loss of reference, that the work reaches its greatest intensity: not when technique is displayed as virtuosity, but when it disappears into the image, leaving only the sensation of st

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www.danielagra.com

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