Juan Caguicla

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In this series, the artist returns to the arms of the female form, old and comforting territory amid the blank wastes of digital possibility. The ancient curves sloping like familiar arguments to  the old exclamatory landmarks looming with sexual energies. The familiar photographic processes of defamiliarization and fragmentation annex the surgical powers of the computer, enlarging their reach and scope.

A consequence of cosmetic reassembly is that photography's impulse to fragmentation now has the power to create creatures from the fragments that used to mark the end of the process. The computer remobilizes synthesis as an operation subsequent to analysis, resulting in the appearance of creatures, or --more properly-- chimeras, and with their appearance, the return of pose and gesture.

The chimeras of Caguicla's series inhabit generic, neutral spaces. Office corridors or architectural atoms equipped with rudimentary furniture bathed in a light that, shining on sleep-tossed beds, can only be read as morning. They stretch and sit up. They stumble or they get up, all looking newly wakened, and slightly raw. They do not seem to be distortions of the female body so much as evocations of a pre and/or protofemale force; the photographs seem to hint at or be relics from a time when the forces of the female body were casting about for possible avenues of solidification.

 - Excerpted from "Stumbling and Waking"

A meditation on a photographic series by Juan Caguicla written by Tad Ermitaño, 2008