RESEARCH STATEMENT
I approach the photographic medium not as a tool for aesthetic or narrative expression, but as a neutral recording device. Operating outside traditional academic and formalist frameworks, my methodology strips photography of its romantic legacy, favoring a rigorous, rule-based approach heavily influenced by conceptual art practices. My ongoing research focuses on the intersection of mass production, collective memory, and spatial mapping through the serial accumulation of visual data. Through strict parameters of collection and the use of the taxonomic grid, I neutralize the individual subject to reveal the underlying, often unsettling, structures of contemporary human systems.
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
Manuel Sechi (b. 1970, Alghero, Italy) lives and works in Chelmsford, UK.
An independent visual researcher, his practice investigates the systematization of the visible and the bureaucratic nature of the image. Drawing from a decades-long background in structural logic and complex data organization, Sechi approaches the photographic medium as a tool to build typologies and archives.
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