Luis Fonseca

Luis Fonseca’s work bridges photography, printmaking, and sculpture to explore the passage of time, transformation, and memory. Rooted in traditional photographic processes and reimagined through experimental approaches such as cyanotype printing, his art captures the delicate tension between permanence and impermanence. What remains and what fades. 

In his cyanotype piece Mine, Fonseca layers light and shadow to reveal the human form as both presence and trace, evoking themes of connection, loss, and identity. The deep indigo tones suggest a dreamlike state, where memory becomes fluid and bodies merge with the surrounding atmosphere. His use of alternative materials, whether metal, paper, or glass, underscores the fragility and resilience of the human experience. 

Drawing from his Colombian heritage and his life in the Bronx, Fonseca’s art becomes a meditation on belonging and transition. Each work is an act of reclamation. A way of preserving emotion through process, chemistry, and light.