Every photograph is a certificate of a presence ... a reality one can no longer touch.

For some years Alex has been interested in imagining, not directly researching, the everyday things we use for life - from newspaper formats to water and transport infrastructure. It is not necessary for us to see these things: we know they are working for us just beyond our field of vision. Some of the buildings in photographs he has used for his work have since been demolished. They are/were not “corridors of power“ and their architecture had conflicting functions. Alex sees space as defined by obstacles.

He starts with a photograph he's taken such as an image of the sea or urban landscape. In a first step of alteration, several parts of the image are partially erased, and new forms and structures are added, sometimes by photocopying the image again and repeating the erasing and redrawing process. The result is an amalgam of original and altered features in which it is sometimes difficult to tell original drawing from reproduction.

Changing something on paper we must visualize space. Patterns are found on the page in marks and sequential images, and afterwards, in imaginary locations in space. when you look at blank paper, you look at a surface, you notice its imperfections. A mark on a surface is a space. Starting from the surface of the paper, imperfect space goes back into our imagination and also extends into the material. Lines also draw attention to themselves as lines and so to the material surface.