The Architecture of Captivity

Ciudad Máquina represents the moment when the machinery is no longer merely an object built by others. It has expanded until it becomes a world. The mechanism is no longer only in front of the man; it begins to surround him, organizing his space, his movement, his perception, and his way of existing.

In this series, the city is not simply a physical place. It is a symbolic structure of pressure. Its forms, walls, connections, and tensions reveal a system in which the human being learns to live inside the mechanism without fully recognizing that he has been absorbed by it.

Ciudad Máquina shows the environment created for the connected man. It is no longer only a visible machine, but an entire reality where control becomes atmosphere and obedience becomes routine. The outer space begins to resemble the inner condition of the man: contracted, watched, hardened.

Within the journey of La Parábola, this series transforms manipulation into architecture. What began as a false answer now becomes a habitable territory, a city where the soul can walk, but not necessarily be free.

Excerpt from La Parábola:

“With one hand,
Adam makes Eve float,
and with the other
he assembles a machine.”

This series invites the viewer to enter a space where the machinery no longer needs to hide. It has learned to resemble the world.