Jorge Macchi
Bio
Macchi’s work creates fictions of strong visual impact that, without hiding their artifice, emotionally engage the viewer and examine how vision operates, revealing both the fragility and power of images. His practice incorporates references to literature, film, music, and art history. He begins with images meant to produce an immediate, sensory experience without conceptual mediation. His works present recognizable objects and situations that are subtly displaced, generating tensions between appearance and meaning. In his installations he explores architectural limits and develops strategies to translate light and sound into material forms. He also works with urban imaginaries and creates site-specific pieces. At times his works take on a ghostly character, as traces of an unknown event; in others, he starts from chance or marginal elements to construct precise structures. Echoes, repetitions, transparencies, and shifts are central procedures in his poetics.
Statement
Macchi’s work creates visual fictions that reveal the fragility and power of images while emotionally engaging the viewer. It draws on references from literature, film, music, and art, generating immediate experiences through recognizable yet displaced objects and situations. He explores architecture, light, sound, the city, and site-specific works. Some pieces have a ghostly quality, while others combine chance and structure. Echoes, repetitions, transparencies, and shifts are key procedures in his practice.
