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10 October - 16 November 2007

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Begoña Montalbán

 

 

 

Pasos Perdidos. 2000
(Lost Steps)

The architectural space, an empty space, can be compared with that mental space in which we build our intimate stories. Dreams and nightmares that take place in spaces away from reality, as if they occurred on the other side of the glass. In this case, it is about stairs facing each other in displaced fragments. A place inaccessible to the individual yet built to be used by him. Reality and dreams; unreality and everyday life. In Montalbán's work, the bodies and the anthropomorphic structures are built in spaces with no shadows. All her work seems to be placed in a virtual space in which objects are three-dimensional but never real; they don't cast shadows onto those spaces in which they are placed.

"Los pasos perdidos" (The Lost Steps) shows us the impossibility to get anywhere, like a labyrinth. The truncated staircase represents the loss, the impossibility of finding a way out, a place of arrival. The lost steps of so many people that have looked for something which perhaps was only in their minds. Photography here has the power to suggest, and confronts us with the statement that it's no longer about photographing something that happens, an action, a real or constructed place, but photographing a sensation, a symbol, something that neither is nor happens, but is simply a wish.

(Translation: Marina Torres)

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Cazadores de sombras / Photos - overview