Lethe / Aletheia
2017Exhibited 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
gelatin silver print
30 x 40 cm

Orpheus
gelatin silver handprint117 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
Installation picture of (This) precious stone, Copperfield, London
credits: Eva Herzog

with a live performance by Joshua Leon
PUBLICATION
Publication with Trine Stephesen
Exhibition catalogue, A Corner With
