Kraken

2013–2017. In recent decades, several crimes in Spain have become full-blown media phenomena. The brutality of these events—often involving particularly vulnerable victims—is broadcast and dissected across news outlets, which invite the public to consume every minute and sordid detail. Kraken arises from our profound aversion to the cold, merciless nature of these killers, and presents a strong critique of the media, which have relentlessly circulated—and continue to circulate—their crimes to saturation point. The images that make up Kraken are digital collages combining beautiful landscapes with human figures involved in dark events, whether as perpetrators or victims. The photographs are intentionally theatrical, echoing the way the media turn these deaths into a form of spectacle. Kraken speaks of a loss of humanity—both in the monsters who kill without compassion and in a society numbed by the opportunistic behaviour of the media, a society that seems to have grown accustomed to horror.