“The image must have access to the indefinite, while being completely determined, the space
must always be any space, disaffected, even if geometrically determined in its entity”
Deleuze
The initial attraction towards the choice of the Grand Theatre is the issue of separation from the object, a separation that takes a perceptual dimension.
When looked at from any angle, the building produces a sense of boundary, an opaque surface that does not allow looking past it. The object is seen as an enclosure, and it becomes limiting. It is an interruption but creates an opportunity to set up a problem. The problem is that this found object in the city manifests frustration and stimulates curiosity to face the feeling of absence and lack it creates in its current state.
The photographs are used to evaluate the contrast with the exterior perception of the object in order
to reinforce the first intuitive choice of the object, and in an attempt to get closer to an objectivity.
The images show an internal logic that puts forward a complexity in the physicality of the space.
Diverse qualities of light emphasize the released materiality of the interior elements. Interactions
between energy and light happen through the selected frames. They create fragments of a lost
reality, and unavoidably introduce cultural concerns about the history of the theater. But, far from
dwelling on these allusions, these fragments are to be seen merely as part of the material of architecture, as indifferent.
A series of nine interior photographic shots are selected and labeled as spatial moments in the
Grand Theatre. Each frame is isolated from the next and is deconstructed, dematerialized and
contracted into the only fragments absolutely necessary to outline the overall structure of the
element in question. These fragments are the essential spatial components selected from the
cinematic: energy, light and frame. The choice of the sequence of images follows a jump-cut
technique and thus space can follow space, not necessarily in the order normally expected, but in
a series of staged revelations that can announce a new spatial structure. 
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