Aesthetica Art Prize alumnus聽Gabriela Torres Ruiz聽uses photography to preserve a personal experience of silence. By capturing nature as well spaces of disintegration and decay, her diptychs indicate the inevitable and progressive passage of linear time. Her work is on display as part of the European Month of Photography, Berlin.
Looking towards the eventual reclamation of man made structures by their surroundings, this series subtly asserts the powerful ownership of the natural world over human constructions.
As the artist notes:聽鈥淭his series offers metaphors about the fate of those interiors returning to their initial state, where nature regains its lost space. I try to find images that are complementary and that somehow relate, either by the type of light, texture, colour, the atmosphere that they transmit or聽the aura they have. There must be something that unifies them and they should give us the feeling that they belong to the same place; that they belong to each other.鈥
Torres Ruiz combines the sublimity of nature with lost domestic grandeur; the interplay of light between the pairings often causes the work to enter into quasi-mythical realms, and as paint peels from walls and ripped curtains hang in broken windows, the photographs imply discarded narratives.
The show runs until 11 November. Find out more
Credits:
1.聽Image 漏 Gabriela Torres Ruiz, Silence.
2.聽Gabriela Torres Ruiz, #1 (2013). From the series Silence.
3.聽#28 from the Silence diptych. Courtesy of Gabriela Torres-Ruiz.
