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Triptych. 1990
Images created without a camera, bodies that construct the subtle poetics of absence. Through the direct technique used, which eliminates all technological mediation and takes the direct image of the object, it's as if the soul is taken out of the body. Tomy Ceballos offers us a world of shadows. Beyond what we see, there is a real world, but with these images, we go through that mirror we believe we're seeing and we find ourselves in a place in which bridal gowns float devoid of a body, a shadow of what they were or what they will become, and the bodies, directly developed, never photographed, become the shadows of themselves and reach a different life, they are now autonomous, perhaps finally free.
Close to abstraction, Ceballos creates his images with fragments snatched from reality, obtaining shades of color, impossible to photograph shapes, all thanks to the immediacy of a technique that transforms the photograph, the emulsified paper, through direct contact with the bodies, with the objects we will later see changed into a representation of themselves, into a suggestive and full of shades black and white, into a shadow plucked as if by magic through the spells of a photographic lab.
(Translation: Marina Torres)
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