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Get matched →DOMINIO: An Unfinished Visual Archive of Architectural Extractivism on view in the Newmark Gallery at Art Omi from March 21–May 31, 2026. Architectural photographer Onnis Luque traces the often-invisible origins of construction back to the raw landscapes from which they are born. What began in 2014 as a roadside encounter with a sand mine evolved into a years-long investigation of Mexico's extractive geographies—from the Mezquital Valley to the Highlands of Chiapas, the Sierra de las Mitras to the Yucatán Peninsula. Through his lens, Luque captures the aftermath of relentless extraction: fractured hillsides, gaping quarries, and industrial scars etched into the land.
These photographs challenge the dominant visual culture of architecture, which glorifies pristine forms while obscuring the socio-ecological violence embedded in their production. They reveal a terrain shaped not just by machines, but by ideologies: capitalism, modernism, colonialism, and the myth of nature as inexhaustible resource. DOMINIO makes visible what architectural images often conceal: that buildings are rooted not only in place, but in the distant voids left behind by their materials.
Onnis Luque is a Mexican architectural photographer and trained architect who graduated from the School of Architecture at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He currently lives and works in the peninsular Mayan territory. Luque is the author of DOMINIO (Gatonegro, 2023), (H) Architecture, State and Militarization (Self-published, 2023), UNDERCOVER (The Velvet Cell, 2021), and USF/DF Tactics of Appropriation (CONACULTA, 2014).
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