Lethe / Aletheia
(2017)
Lethe / Aletheia (to conceal / to reveal)
explores the symbol of the cave as a subliminal and meditative space between birth and disappearance.
Exhibited in: A Corner With, Centro Cultural Galileo, Copperfield Gallery.
Lethe / Aletheia (to conceal / to reveal)
explores the symbol of the cave as a subliminal and meditative space between birth and disappearance.
Exhibited in: A Corner With, Centro Cultural Galileo, Copperfield Gallery.
Inspired by Beckett’s Company and excerpts of Ovid’s version of the myth of Echo and Narcissus. The images embody the psychological space of the characters from those stories. They 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.
It is perhaps in this grotesque distortion, that the characters may experience something other, undiscovered, unknown.
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”.
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
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.
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