PROVISIONAL ATLAS OF BERLIN

PROVISIONAL ATLAS OF BERLIN is the result of exhaustive work carried out over four years, with daily outings, traversing the city again and again. It is a project about the current situation of Berlin, about the rapid changes that have taken place in its identity, about various factors that are transforming the city: tourism, gentrification, the rise in housing prices, etc., which have turned the city of the poor but sexy into the rich but boring. Nothing new, this is what is happening in most cities, except that here the phenomenon is occurring at a rapid pace, and it allows me to speak about a global issue.

The city of war wounds, the city of the wall, which made Berlin unique, special, and different, is almost no longer visible. The new wall, what separates people now, is mainly access to housing. Demolitions are replacing old buildings with modern, luxurious apartments and office buildings. Every free square inch of the city is being built, or the existing space is being freed up by evicting its former tenants. The social landscape is changing at a rapid pace, with its consequent repercussions: the shift from the center to the periphery of the population, the disappearance of the neighborhood fabric, the homogenization of the urban center... It is important to document and delve into the times we live in, a drastic paradigm shift that deserves to be chronicled. At the same time, I also aim to offer an artistic perspective, where photography relates to the pictorial, bringing the pure document to artistic creation. Some images form a kind of tableaux, with relationships between space and subjects that generate narratives. Other images relate directly to different pictorial or even sculptural disciplines, or to other photographic references that are important to me, without ever neglecting the documentation of daily life in today's city.

For me, it is very difficult to summarize a project as extensive as the one I have been working 4 years in 7 images. I hope I have been able to give an idea of ​​the photographic development of this work.