luis castilla
ARTIST BIO
Luis Castilla achieved a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree specializing in Graphic Design from the University of Seville. The artist began his career as a photographer in 1990, in El Correo de Andalucía. Later, after joining the team of photographers from the Expo 92 in Seville, he worked with various publications specializing in entertainment photography and worked for numerous theater, dance and music companies.
The artist’s experience as a performing arts photographer has had a marked influence on his fine artwork, developing his interest in the human body and its physical and symbolic plasticity. Through his artwork, the artist hence reflects on the relationship between the two disciplines of photography and dance, and how each adds value to each other.
Luis Castilla lives and works in Seville, Spain.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
This photographic series INTX, is an ongoing project, initiated in 2000 as research about the human body and its expressive possibilities. For it, I collaborated with contemporary dancers in photo shoots, in which we proposed a common process in search of a certain quality of movement and body language that would allow us to find moments that disclose raw emotions.
The development of this series lead me to understand the body as a landscape, where each frame captures the excitement of movements, oscillating between reality and fantasy. In this sense, my photographs reflect on areas close to the memory, visions moving in between the tangible and the imagined. Using the body as a canvas, caught in the blink of a moment, I disclose spaces between the lived and dreamed.
To capture my images, I began by utilizing analog photography, followed by laboratory manipulation, and then the use of cameras and digital techniques. The resulting changes in textures and colors highlight a level of distorted reality, reinforcing the idea of detachment between the concrete and the emotional.
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