melis.s

A little preview of the book I'm currently working on, everything is still in progress:
The miniaturized environment promises a panoramic vision in which every element appears in its proper place: the illusion of an ordered, ideal world, possessable and controllable.
When these environments and the objects within them are photographed, the mechanism changes. The high-definition image, instead of confirming the miniature’s coherence, disrupts its balance. It is not the object that draws closer: it is the image that imposes itself in its excessive scale. As in Robert Hooke’s Micrographia, where the microscope opened access to an invisible world, here resolution returns the very matter of the world built small: irregular surfaces, cheap materials, signs of wear.
These images show spaces and furnishings for what they have become: once-dreamed objects, now no longer in use, that withdraw from desire and judgment. The image does not destroy the miniature, nor does it redeem it: it grants it space and time. And in this suspended dimension, free from use and possession, the objects reveal an unexpected and liberating dignity: what remains when the promise dissolves.