Jose de Sancristobal

He studied Architecture (CEDIM, Monterrey) and later Architectural Lighting Design (UNAM, Mexico City). His primary medium is the intervention of in-situ architectural spaces, frequently resulting in satellite pieces such as models, studio drawings, and paintings. His work revolves around three main axes: light, architecture, and the city. These three themes result in pieces that question the relativity of observation and the experience of the inhabitant of built spaces. His work has been exhibited in Mexico and the United States of America. In 2016, he won the lighting research competition "The Light Symposium Paper Competition" for the research "City Image and Light Pollution," organized by the University of Applied Sciences, Technology, Business and Design in Wismar, Germany. The installation in the room, “at first they are unsteady and shapeless (hmmmm)”, is a compilation of pictures and vinyls that pretends to resemble diagrams, notes, or disperse writings. With the intention of being read in different directions, the installation grows from a playful and impossible speculation (how would a picture be of what we see when we close our eyes?) To combine different phrases, drawings and images that at the end could function as a reflection about the relation
between images and words.
The piece outside, Untitled (window), uses a mirror to reflect on the wall a figure of a window, creating a shimmer of light where there’s none to be found. The window appears at sunset, and circles ideas of the memory of a place, the poetry of the ordinary, and the manifestation of the inmaterial in the material.