Visual Dialogue – a collaboration between David Roncada and Bastien Pons
What happens when a drawing becomes the starting point for a photograph? In this unique collaboration, visual artist David Roncada initiates the process with a drawing — often minimal, surreal, or suggestive. Then, Bastien Pons, photographer and sound artist, creates a photographic scene inspired by it, crafting an image that expands, questions, or reinterprets the original form.
The result is not a mere illustration, but a visual echo — a conversation between two artistic languages. Roncada’s lines offer tension, abstraction, and open space. Pons responds with light, framing, and texture, using photography to inhabit the drawing and let it unfold in the real world.
Each piece invites viewers into a space where fiction meets texture, where the trace of a pencil becomes shadow, fabric, gesture. The process resists hierarchy: the drawing leads, but the image reclaims its own voice. The final compositions are playful, layered, and subtly unsettling, blurring the line between what is imagined and what is captured.
This series is ideal for those who love conceptual photography, mixed-media art, and collaborative processes. It explores how drawing and photography can co-construct meaning, and how silence and form can speak together.
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