"The visible constructs the form, the invisible gives it value."
- Tao Te King
Photographs of the invisible moves on the border between the concrete world and the ambit of the mysterious. Its images allude to the intangible, to that dimension of existence that is beyond the visible, beyond the apparent, unattainable by thought. It seeks to tune into silence, with the mystery that hides behind the superficial layer of the reality.
Emptied images, stripped of any references to the ‘real’, to that ‘world’ that we believe we can recognize and name, that show us a world of uncertain appearance, a world to be known, to signify, open to endless interpretations. Quiet and silent presences that contain, below their solid and immobile external form, an energy field that gives them dynamism, movement. Forms that allude to the organic, to that indivisible whole that is the Universe, in which everything is interconnected and nothing exists in an isolated way. Essential forms that embrace the abstract, the symbolic, that deal with the transience, the impermanence of all forms, and at the same time, the permanent, the eternal.
The gaze, with hardly any support points to hold on, turns on itself, seeking a more intuitive perception, less mediated by the word. A quiet and attentive perception that leads us, ultimately, to become more aware of our own presence.
Photographs of the invisible confronts us with the opacity of appearances, and at the same time with the ambiguous, elusive nature of photography, and the fragile, precarious relationship that it maintains with the real. It questions thus, not only the transparency and literalness of the appearance of the world, but also that of the photograph itself.
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