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Lethe / Aletheia

2017

Exhibited in: A Corner With, Centro Cultural Galileo (PhotoEspaña) and Copperfield Gallery.
Lethe / Aletheia (to conceal / to reveal) explores the symbol of the cave as a subliminal and meditative space between birth and disappearance.

Inspired by Samuel Beckett’s ‘Company’, the curatorial space of A Corner With was transformed into a darkroom, where large, abstract silver gelatin prints of a cave become reminiscent of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice (The Metamorphoses). The images embody the psychological space of the characters from those stories who appear isolated from the world around them and, primarily, they seem to have lost touch with themselves. Becoming only a voice in the dark. One that reverberates, repeats, and yet does not seem to be able to articulate a message.

The images were made in Greece, where one of the entrances to the Underworld is believed to be, and the location of some of the passages of Homer’s Odyssey. In Greek Mythology the cavern is a place of origin and disappearance, of revelation and forgetfulness; the liminal space between life and death. The words “Lethe” and “Aletheia” in Greek translate as “to forget, to conceal” and “to remember, to reveal”.




 








a mere murmur. Here suddenly seen
how his eyes close as soon as the voice sounds.
Should they happen to be open at the time.
So light as let be  faintest light no longer perceived
than  the time it takes the lid to fall.
Taste? The taste in his mouth? Long since dulled.
Touch? The thrist of the ground against his bones.











Echo










A voice






As wax melts before the gentle fire
darkly then the fading form




- ‘Stay!’, shouted, ‘Stay!’








A Flame
gelatin silver print
30 x 40 cm














Orpheus

gelatin silver handprint
117 x 153 cm










EXHIBITIONS OF THIS PROJECT


A corner With

solo show curated by Trine Stephesen, London, 2018


Descubrimientos Photo España

Centro Cultural Galileo, Madrid, 2019


(This) precious stone, Copperfield, February 2020

curated by Aina Pomar
with Irene de Andrés, Inés Cámara Leret, Yorgos Petrou,
Stéphanie Saadé, Oscar Santillán + Yoko Ono

http://www.copperfieldgallery.com/this-precious-stone-set-in-the-silver-sea.html



        




with a live performance by Joshua Leon



PUBLICATION



Publication with Trine Stephesen

Exhibition catalogue, A Corner With


   


Pages: 36 Format: Softcover Size: 20 x 25 cm Printing: 100 gsm
Uncoated, black print throughout with unique cut outs in each publication.
Hand bound with linen. Edition of 50
Available HERE




INSTITUTIONS & PARTNERS


Centro Cultural Galileo, Photo España

Performance by artist & writer Joshua Leon