The Double Contemplation is an ongoing artistic research project that explores landscape through video, sound, and the presence of the body.
The project emerged from a simple observation: what happens when we watch someone who is looking? Through video, contemplation becomes a shared experience. The viewer observes a person who, within the image, is contemplating a place. A double contemplation is established—a play of gazes, distances, and scales—in which we look at someone who is looking while simultaneously seeing what they see.
Landscape, in this research, is neither nature nor representation. It is not an object waiting to be observed, nor an image to be captured. Landscape appears as a relationship: an intermediate space between what is outside and what is inside, between perception and memory, between the visible world and the way it is experienced.
Rather than representing a territory, the work seeks to create the conditions through which this relationship can emerge. Video becomes a device that makes mediation visible, shifting the spectator away from a direct encounter with the landscape and toward an awareness of the act of looking itself.
The process begins with prolonged encounters with a site: spending time, observing without a camera, listening, and allowing the place to affect the body. From there, images and sounds are constructed through attention rather than action. Small perceptual displacements—particularly between image and sound—introduce subtle fractures that invite the viewer to actively construct their own experience of the landscape.
The Double Contemplation understands landscape not as something that already exists, but as something that happens: a fragile and temporary relationship between a body, a place, and a gaze.
