The grid: Sinziana Velicescu’s visions of America

In her new series, American Mirage, Los Angeles-based photographer Sinziana Velicescu asks us to consider the juxtaposition between the sprawling, vivid natural landscapes of the US and its blocky, built-up architecture. The result is an almost hallucinatory overlap of things old and new, with abandoned billboards in the desert and the shadows of trees dancing on multi-storey walls.

Velicescu says the project is “uncovering architectural fragments and overlooked spaces in a country where the line between real and unreal has become increasingly blurred. The images explore how places hold traces of different eras simultaneously, suspended between what was promised and what remains.”