ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Love is like swallows: it flies away with the last leaves; today, tomorrow or the day after, they have to leave dead. But not ours.

AUTHOR
Lucas Garcete (b. 2000, Ciudad del Este) is a Spanish visual artist and poet born in Paraguay, working primarily with black-and-white conceptual photography. His practice centers on the transformation of the human figure into a symbolic silhouette, situated within nocturnal and desolate environments.

Through controlled use of light and shadow, digital manipulation, and a restrained monochrome palette, Garcete constructs images in which identity is reduced and the body functions as a sign rather than an individual subject. Architectural ruins, barren landscapes, and ambiguous spaces operate as settings for allegorical scenes that oscillate between the real and the imagined.

Influenced by Romantic literature, Gothic aesthetics, Surrealism, and the tradition of silhouette portraiture, his work reinterprets historical visual languages through contemporary photographic processes. Rather than offering fixed narratives, his images remain open, engaging with themes of mortality, absence, and liminality through the expressive potential of monochrome photography.

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