In her “(de)constructions”, Leticia Lampert invites us to an oddish experience facing the possibilities of the photographic compositions. Based on photo collage principles – used strategy since the avant-gardes, especially Dadaism – the artist shows the artificial sense of deconstructed architectures, and post-reconstruction under the ordered disorder principle. Throughout her images we can watch the fading refuse of our selective memories while we process the excessive daily visual stimulus. Apparently plain, those photo collages are full of ambiguity, offering a dense criticism to the contemporary cities’ life. In those combinations, which remind us the ghettos’ improvised constructions, we can see the poor kitsch of the decorative elements, the exaggerated protection comfortlessness and the time waste power over things and people. Those images inhabitants, shown in many scales, at the same time blur our vision and our understanding of the space around us, and also point towards its disturbing fragility like almost random parts in this poetic landscape.
Alexandre Santos
Historian and Art Critic
Presentation for the solo exhibition (de)constructions, Galeria dos Arcos – Usina do Gasômetro – 2008
Porto Alegre/RS – Brazil