This exhibition combines a dialogue between two contemporary authors with related aesthetic concerns. In abstract images that flow over time or space, Paola Dávila and Ilán Rabchinskey show long processes of production and reflection. These visual investigations led the artists to be selected to be part of the XIX Photography Biennial of the Centro de la Imagen (open until March 27, 2022). Espacios Intermedios articulates his work more extensively while celebrating it.

 

As Lorena Peña Brito, curator of the Biennial, writes, “In the body of work Multiple Space, Ilán Rabchinskey unfolds his research on the link between photography and sculpture. On the one hand, he relaxes and contracts the visual possibilities and the times of the objects he records in a single image: through different lighting, positions, and relationships, the elements that make up his visual essays become forms of writing on the image. On the other hand, the resulting abstractions evoke an intermediate space between the third and second dimensions in which light, time, shadow, transparency, color, and reflection invite us to abandon them in the face of the joy of the confused gaze, to the relationship of bodies in space, and also to the materialities that oppose and expand for the public different notions of photography.” These pieces were created in a home studio in days of lockdown. Facing the turbulence of the times, Ilán focused his attention on the meeting of light and space, searching for the liberating potential of abstraction. On this occasion, the artist also presents selected pieces from two previous series, Shimmering Blue Light on a Still Red Square and Rudiments, which are the starting point for his explorations of the intersection between photography and sculpture - image and object -.

On her part, regarding the Juegos series, Peña Brito writes, “Paola Dávila (winner of the Acquisition Prize) reproduces a repetitive and daily mapping of her own body within the home, to invite us to reflect on the use of interior space during confinement. for the pandemic. An abstract dissertation on the house, which even now is no longer just the place of shelter, but the space to which the production system and capitalist time have been transferred. The series produces a daily representation that shows the intensity of the constant trips to the interior of the home and marks the frequency of use of certain specific places. There is in this series by Dávila an abstraction of the presence, of the present body, and of the personal, subtracted from the gear of production. In the mappings carried out by the artist, loaded with a certain formal and melancholic poetics of the cyanotype, the body, and the inhabited space disappear to extract from them only the border where they touch, to synthesize and evoke a way of life with the complexities of the new forms of captivity”. Additionally, the artist here presents her most recent project Mareas, a work that revolves around reflection on the photographic medium and its objectivity. In a world where everything is controlled, these pieces open up a random space.

 

The approaches of each one are different, as well as the results, however in both a concern for the possibilities of the photographic image is perceived as an open field of perception, where the spatial limits become diffuse in a kind of open metaphor about which one can walk.

The two artists have been members of the National System of Art Creators since 2020.

 

*Projects carried out with the support of the Support System for Creation and Cultural Projects (FONCA).

Ilán Rabchinskey, Equivalence form the Serie Multiple Space.

Paola Dávila from the Serie Mareas.

Ilán Rabchinskey, Progression 1 from the Serie Multiple Space.

Paola Dávila from the Serie Juegos.