Luisa Lambri
(1969)
Untitled (Barragan House, #31), 2005
Chromogenic print
86 x 96 cm
AP1 from edition of 5 + 1AP
Artwork © Luisa Lambri. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery. Barragan House © Barragan Foundation, Switzerland
The series of images were made at Casa Luis Barragán, the home of the modernist Mexican architect. Luisa Lambri captured a square window in the house, arranging the Dutch shutters in slightly different positions. The bright light that filters through produces cross-like configurations that have distinctly religious and Modernist overtones. Her large, mostly black-and-white images comment on the medium of photography and the legacy of Modernist abstraction through the work of other artists and architects.