Blade Runner
About this work
Blade Runner is a science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and released in 1982, starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and Sean Young. Set in a Los Angeles imagined for the year 2019, it presents a society in which replicants exist: artificial beings virtually indistinguishable from humans. Rick Deckard (Ford), a former police officer who specializes in tracking them down, is assigned to pursue a group that has returned illegally to Earth. Its visual universe, characterized by large illuminated advertisements, industrial architecture and omnipresent technology, became a fundamental reference for the cyberpunk imagination and cinematic representations of the future.
The painting condenses this visual world into a circular arrangement of figures, light and machinery. Rather than reproduce the film’s duration or scale, the watercolor asks for a close look at a familiar image and its painted details. Its place in Cosas simples connects a once-futuristic cinematic world with the material persistence of images in generational memory.