For Chuma Montemayor, the image is something remembered rather than recorded. Christian Dior Speedo I belongs to his ongoing Memory series, where photographic and mixed-media processes return to repetition, erosion, and the way a picture persists and shifts in the mind. The work reads less like a document than a trace — a scene held loosely, interrupted, and quietly insistent.
Printed as inkjet on cotton photographic paper and mounted on sintra board, the piece favors tonal restraint over sharp contrast, letting soft gradations carry the mood. Shown without glass or acrylic, its surface stays open and matte, and the horizontal format settles the eye into slow, attentive looking. Issued in an edition of three, this is print 3 of 3 — the last of the series.
Inkjet on cotton photographic paper mounted on sintra · 2025 · 150 × 170 cm (59 × 67 in) · Edition 3 of 3 · No glass or acrylic · Certificate of authenticity included.