Image: Lake Verea by Giorgianna Chiang, 2021
Lake Verea is a queer duo working in conceptual photography. They work in series that develop over the years where the technical and the conceptual go hand by hand to create a personal narrative. In 2011 they started the DarkRoom Series portraying the House of Mexican Modern Master Luis Barragan in Mexico City, followed by Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan Connecticut and Edward James Las Pozas in San Luis Potosí Mexico. Three radical modern icons of architecture that were conceived as a personal haven that have become architectural attractions.
Working with different cameras and formats, both analogue and digital they shoot and experiment with long exposures and time. The practice of slow photography allows them to perceive what the eyes cannot see at a first glance. To portray these houses under full moon light and in complete darkness allows the duo to explore other spaces that are metamorphous when the night falls. The thin light that illuminates the intimate spaces gives them room to fully immerse themselves in the penumbra and the shadow. They focus their cameras on the details that appear unimportant in daylight, looking for the intimacy and silence that the men behind these buildings sought and experienced while living in them.
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LAKE VEREA
Lake Verea is an artist duet formed in 2005 by Francisca Rivero-Lake and Carla Verea. Their work explores concepts of expanded photography through installation, textile, performance, sculpture, and video. By experimenting with photographic techniques and formats that blur questions of authorship, they build narratives that highlight their combined identity to create intimate portraits of architecture, artists’ archives, and people. They’ve poured through the archives of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, architect Luis Barragán, and German émigrés Josef and Anni Albers, amongst others. Lake Verea’s 2011-2018 “Paparazza Moderna” project explores the idea of architecture as a living being through portraits of single-family houses designed by modernist architects Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Richard Neutra, Rudolph M. Schindler, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson.
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