(...) In my opinion, by explicitly concentrating on the latent image, Photolatente duplicates, the elementary structures of the photographic process. As if playing with mirrors, it places them in front of us and forces us to reflect on what has become, by force of habit, transparent and practically trivial in a world overloaded with images. Moreover, by inviting participants to act on the latent image, Photolatente confronts us with the process of compositions, decompositions and transformations involved in a concept of oeuvre in which there is always some quality of latency, a play on the unseen that gives rise to something not previously there. These are the issues I wish to consider, especially from the perspective of the consonances which, in my opinion, exist between Photolatente and some current ideas about experience and the artistic phenomenon (...)

©Rosemary Vargas,2002
Complete text in Photovision nº 31