PAISAJE presents ...CULdeBAL; a project that makes visible and evident the intersection between photography, art, and fashion, all stemming from the same origin: the image. Here, the medium expands—from the frame to the canvas—to open up formal and semantic possibilities.
The selection for PAISAJE articulates two aspects of the work of Alejandra Quintero (1980): the ongoing project ...CULdeBAL (2009–2025) which draws on the best-known photographic series
such as “SEAS”.
...CULdeBAL celebrates human existence and exalts the beauty of the body without filters: a 16-year archive, made in 54 places in 14 countries, which becomes a constellation of “postcards” of resorts, beaches and everyday recreation centers, where aesthetic standards and social strata dissolve before the universality of the body.
In this presentation, photography serves as both a starting point and a critical tool. Quintero's images question contemporary aesthetic impositions, interrogate the use of public space, and explore the relationship between body and environment. Beginning in 2020, the project expanded into the world of textiles: the photographs are printed on fabrics and adapted to the body, merging art, fashion, and photography. PAISAJE exhibits this dual dialogue of the project through an installation that alternates frames and garments, paper and fabric, proposing a material dialogue in which the supports do not compete, but rather challenge one another.
The curatorial approach is built around three operations: scale, support, and gaze. Scale shifts the focus from anecdote to perception: a minimal gesture becomes a sign when space amplifies it or alters its original order; this is evident in the framing of some of the images and many of the garments. The support rewrites the image: what the eye orders on paper, on fabric evokes a new perspective; photography, when worn, changes its reading regime and becomes a declaration of identity. The gaze—always situated—proposes the question of observation: faced with the everyday, not to embellish, but to provoke; not to idealize, but to accept the everyday image and humanity as it is.
In LANDSCAPE, the photographs and garments are presented in a material dialogue: they don't compete, they complement each other. The result is a journey where the image is both observed and inhabited.
Note: ...CULdeBAL does not use stock images or AI-generated photographs. Each piece stems from Quintero's direct work and his decision to expand photography into other media, reaffirming its enduring relevance and his personal processes of worldview.