Hymns to The Night

• Prize
  Bronze in Fine Art/Collage
• Photographer
  Lucas Garcete
• Technical Info
  A Mix Of Several Digital Photographs Captured With Different Cameras, Joined Together Using Ps
• Photo Date
  2023 - 2025

Inspired by Novalis's Hymns to the Night, these monochromatic photographic collages explore the night as a realm of spiritual transformation and transcendence. Advanced digital editing merges desolate landscapes, rivers, and symbolic elements—antlered figures, crescent moons, cats, swans, and Victorian silhouettes—into surreal compositions. They evoke dreams, mythology, and the duality of love and death, revealing photography's power to unite reality and myth in a profound, introspective journey. The works are based on photography, with all montages and collages digitally composed by hand.

Lucas Garcete (b. 2000, Ciudad del Este) is a Spanish visual artist working primarily with black-and-white photography. His practice explores symbolism, liminality, and the human silhouette as a conceptual tool. Drawing from Romantic, Gothic, and surrealist traditions, he constructs nocturnal scenes where anonymity allows figures to dissolve into archetypes. Through digital manipulation and a restrained monochrome language, his work addresses themes of mortality, transformation, and the threshold between the visible and the unknown.