Abelardo Morell, Tent/Camera Image: View of Monet's Garden #3, Giverny, France, 2023, archival pigment print. Courtesy of the artist and Edwynn Houk Gallery

“After Monet is a project I began in France during the summers of 2015 and 2016. I began in Monet’s gardens in Giverny, Rouen and other regions along the Normandy coast where he painted. In June 2023, I pursued the project further in Giverny and Vétheuil, where Monet lived and painted. His landscape work interests me a lot because of his emphasis on linking seeing and painting. In his work these two things are inseparable!

Undoubtedly, my photographs also suggest the look of many other painters and photographers who worked in France during the mid-19th century. What I have come up with contains some interesting new versions of the light and the land, now so familiar, in paintings and photographs by artists from the past. The feeling of sharing a common ground with them thrills me.” —Abelardo Morell