Letters to the Seers, the title of this series, is inspired by André Breton's 1925 text Lettre aux voyantes. It is a tribute to the lady seers who, like poets, preserve the revelatory, confuse the consumable fact with the consummate fact, and keep at our disposal the assurance of absolute possibility. They calculate by groping, with results that, being arbitrary or not, are always grand.

Each photogram is unique because they are like the matrix and the photograph at the same time. The part of the light-sensitive photographic paper exposed to light turns black, and the covered part remains white. It is through resistance that the images are formed. This was a technique used by artists associated with Surrealism, such as Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy.

These Letters to the Seers were constructed from the portraits Alfred Stieglitz (NY photographer, 1864 - 1946) made at the beginning of the 20th century (1903 and 1917)—featuring many silhouettes of his female muses—and from three books I found on the streets of Berlin with reproductions of Baroque and Renaissance paintings, from a time when images were still printed as postcards and pasted into the publication. I couldn't determine what year these books, published in Hamburg, are from, certainly from a time when documenting time was less important than it is today.

Letters to the Seers, 2025
Series of 12
Fomabrom archival paper
30.5 x 40.6 cm