ROOM SET

Cinthya Soto (Costa Rica, b. 1969) studied visual arts in Costa Rica, specialising in photography. In addition she is greatly interested in architecture, and in recent years received training in video and film in Switzerland, where she has lived since 1999. Various aspects of this wide artistic background come together in Soto’s present work. Her own living environment is central to it. The interiors of the rooms where she comes and goes daily are recorded in multiple images, as if she is exploring the spaces for the first time with a film camera. Soto assembles these image fragments in clusters. Overlaps among the photographs and various points of view create confusion about the precise relationships in these spaces. At the same time the grid in which the images are presented provides a new order in Soto’s personal explorations.