Casa Montelongo: What Escapes the Eye

There are houses that cannot be read at normal speed.
Casa Montelongo, in La Oliva, Fuerteventura, is one of them.
The place asks you to slow down, and only then does it begin to show what a quick look would miss.
I approach architecture as something lived, not as a static object to photograph.
What interests me is the emotion a space holds, and the part of it that escapes the eye at first sight.
I investigated the voids of the house guided by the spatial sensibility of the dancer Andrea Pérez. Her presence gives scale to the place and reveals the silent dialogue between the architecture and the act of inhabiting it.

Cameras: BlackMagic Cinema Camera, Fujifilm X-T3.

Software: Adobe Photoshop, Capture One, Davinci Resolve, Adobe Audition.

The piece starts with a decision about pace. To slow down.
In this house time dilates. With calm and pause, attention expands and the place begins to show what a quick look misses. The morning light on a wall, the silence between two rooms, the small changes a space goes through during the day.
Andrea Pérez moves through the empty rooms as a way of reading them. Her presence gives scale to the void and reveals the silent dialogue between the architecture and the act of inhabiting it. At the center of the house, a sculpture by Óscar Latuag joins its two spaces and casts a shifting shadow on the white walls that moves with the sun.
It is a study on the beauty of the intangible. On what escapes us, and on the dialogue between one's own presence and the place one inhabits.

A space is not understood until someone inhabits it.
Andrea Pérez moves through the empty rooms not as a performer in a scene, but as a way of reading them. Her body gives scale to the void and turns the architecture into something lived. Where the eye sees an empty room, her presence reveals a silent dialogue between the house and the act of inhabiting it.
At the center of the house, a sculpture by Óscar Latuag joins its two spaces and casts onto the white walls a slow choreography of shadows that changes with the sun. The body and the shadow, the matter that stays and the light that moves through it, become two ways of measuring the same place.