Ilán Rabchinskey

In this body of work, Ilán Rabchinskey expands his research on the connection between photography and sculpture.

On one hand, he stretches and compresses the visual possibilities (as well as the temporalities) of the objects he captures in a single image: through diverse lighting, positioning, and relational arrangements, the elements that compose his visual essays become forms of writing upon the image.

On the other hand, the resulting abstractions evoke an intermediate space between the third and second dimensions, where light, time, shadow, transparency, color, and reflection invite us to surrender ourselves to the pleasure of a bewildered gaze, the relationship of bodies in space, and the materialities that, in both contraction and expansion, offer the spectator different notions of the photographic.

Beyond Rabchinskey’s reflection on the photographic, the work also articulates a philosophical reflection that is both personal and political, on how the play of appearances (what is illuminated, what might be glimpsed from the shadows, and the superimposition of temporalities), creates a subjective perspective we apply, sometimes unknowingly, to our surroundings and everyday life. An open metaphor upon which to walk.

                                                                                                              Lorena Peña Brito