Soledad Córdoba

Avilés, 1977. Artist, mother and PhD in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid.

In Soledad Córdoba's work, photography is a place of thought, from which to appeal to emotions and experiences that are born from the personal and are amplified and expressed towards the universal through a poetic language. The woman is always the protagonist and the guide of all her works, from the performative self-referentiality, photography serves as a vital and symbolic document.

She conceives all her work as a great project extended in time. Through the symbolic he delves into aspects that connect our body with the emotional and spiritual. Where the beautiful and the sinister are in balance, where the mystical and the earthly meet in a liminal place which is what he is interested in investigating and from which he wants to reflect.

The states of the soul, the transformations of the body, the displaced identities devastated and transformed by desires, fears, pain? All this, together with the poetics of the landscape, the connection with the untamed nature in which we live and the inner, personal and familiar places that are disrupted, are some of the lines of thought presented in his works.

Marta Soul

Madrid, 1973. Visual artist and curator.

Marta Soul evokes the horizon as the place where the earth seems to merge with the sky, when seen it produces an ethereal, intense and even melancholic sensation. As soon as one reaches the ground with one's gaze, it is a light that is lost and at the same time evokes a beauty that seems to represent the beauty of the world as a whole. It evokes an unknown beyond. What lies behind this blurred line is unknown to the eye of the beholder, but the imagination leads to a multitude of possibilities.

The horizon is a metaphor for the human condition of wanting to reach the unreachable, of setting goals and going towards them while ignoring the process itself. It is not something static, it is something that moves, for one can imagine a high tower on the horizon and set that building as a goal of reference to reach it, but, once reached, one will see another horizon again; this leads one to think that the horizon is not something given in The Material World. The horizon is rather a construct of the human psyche, which is not endowed to think without limits. But it seems that it is not endowed to think finitude either, since once a limit is reached, another horizon appears. The horizon is also the peculiar name we have given to the word limit when we speak of landscapes.

Laura Torrado

Madrid, 1967. Visual artist and PhD in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid.

Laura Torrado, through the photographic image and other media such as video and sculpture, investigates the poetics of the body in public and private space. The photographic series Vida suspendida , begun in 2010, is inspired by the baroque pictorial genre of Vanitas or still lifes.

These contemporary Vanitas maintain a dialogue between Eros and Thanatos, and confront the drive for beauty and life, in the face of disappearance and the advent of death as a shared end. The images are constructed on the basis of theatrical stagings in which a convulsive and excessive aesthetic prevails over the poetics of waste and ephemerality.

The dialogue between past and present, between eroticism and death, and the ostentation of the whole in the face of the nothing, typical of baroque aesthetics and thought, are evident in this series that anachronistically questions contemporaneity, which in Agamben's words would come to mean the following: Contemporaneity is that singular relationship with time itself, which adheres to it but, at the same time, takes distance from it (Giorgio Agamben, Desnudez, 2011).

Esther Maestre (exhibition's curator)