Dissecting, cutting, measuring, organizing, and composing are verbs that are part of Letícia Lampert’s poetic vocabulary. The desire to understand the relationship between the gaze and what surrounds us daily appears in her work through varied compositions and typologies – sometimes minimal and delicate landscapes, at other times cities that take shape from her meticulous elaboration.
In the works presented here, the city is the impulse and the stage for her experiments. Photography is her mode of operation, her instrument. It is through the image that the city becomes palpable. It is possible, then, to experience the landscape. By dismantling the scene, Letícia seeks to understand the agglomerated composition that forms contemporary cities. In her images, the lack of perspective and space between buildings, neighboring windows almost glued together, reduced green areas, and the little space left to see the sky, reveal the accelerated and unplanned growth of urban centers. Purposefully a city without a name, which can be any city and all cities at the same time.
The excess of chaos to which we are already accustomed thus gains a new dimension, fun and sensitive. By subtracting, Letícia highlights; by composing, she saturates, making points of attention emerge, those same points that go unnoticed amidst the daily rush. The exercise of looking at the city then becomes an exercise in learning to see better, like a puzzle that, in its assembly, teaches us about composition and only when finished allows us to see the whole.
Luísa Kiefer
March, 2018