By WAC | 2 SEP 2022

From his attraction to two acoustic mirrors or microphones that he finds while wandering around the mountain of Montjuïc, Phillip Maisel elaborates a reflection on belonging, on double lives or on how much one leaves behind after being absent. In Parabolic Structures, the artist's specular work enables the connection between distances that apparently do not communicate: distant times, different places, distinct stories.

A dialogue between old photographs of Catalan groups and families and snapshots of meetings with their relatives taken from Maisel's personal archive. Thanks to collage, with which he aligns both the aforementioned images and mirrors or architectural and construction materials —for instance, the tombstones from the old Jewish cemetery of Montjuïc reused for building in Barcelona—, the fragmentary nature of the materials found by the artist gives rise to stories, narratives, interwoven in such a way that, while offering a singular view of space and time, they allow all possible readings within the reach of those who enjoy his still lifes exhibited in Chiquita Room.

Phillip Maisel's work is based on the language of photography. However, he uses materials he obtains from specific locations (as is the case of Montjuïc mountain for this exhibition) from which he creates sculptures, collages and objects with which to explore the practice of photography, in such a way that they are a place to contemplate the selected materials themselves. In doing so, he revisits the value of use and the two-dimensional nature of the medium: angular compositions and abstract forms to focus attention on the represented space of the image.

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