Marco V. Pereira

The hypercube straddles four dimensions, a tesseract interwoven by time and space. This is the reality we inhabit, yet one that remains somewhat underrepresented in still photography. So how to explore such truths?

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The Euclidean grid offers a secure structure to disturb. With this lattice projected at an angle, the camera would only capture darkness, unless passing green light were interrupted. The Hypercubic series was born, therefore: long exposures of a trace through the Universe, trajectories drawn out through performance in the light, a self-portrait of sorts captured in a single frame. Space-time warped into relativistic curvatures, new geometries abstracted from the index of my very existence.

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With further iterations, the grid deconstructs into parallel lines; the projector contracts into a laser pointer. The imagery transforms in turn, but conversations with the cubic grid continue. A duality lingers between representation of a photographer’s passage through a dark space illuminated, and the fresh forms this motion carves out. It is for the viewer to find their own meaning; a deliberate ambiguity lurks within the mystery.

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Hypercubic formed the basis of a MA Photography degree show project at Goldsmiths, University of London. 

I appear in every image, and every image is a single full-frame long exposure, taken in the studio.