Martínez Bellido. ST 19 (aprieto los ojos en la oscuridad), 2024
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Martínez Bellido - Aprieto los ojos en la oscuridad
17/05/2024 - 06/09/2024
Luis Adelantado
Borrowing from the aberrations and distortions produced by light in lenses and prisms, Martínez Bellido has made a set of photographs without a camera, now on exhibit at Galería Luis Adelantado. The title, Aprieto los ojos en la oscuridad (Press on My Eyeballs in the Dark), is taken from August Strindberg’s essay A Glance into Space, where he asks: “Is the sun round because it looks round to us? And what is light? [...] When it is dark and I press on my eyeballs, I first see a chaos of light, stars or sparks, which are gradually condensed and gathered up into a brilliant disk [...]. Is it the inside of the eye that the astronomer reproduces in word and image, and is it the lenses of the telescope that he photographs on the photosensitive plate?”
17/05/2024 - 06/09/2024
Luis Adelantado
Borrowing from the aberrations and distortions produced by light in lenses and prisms, Martínez Bellido has made a set of photographs without a camera, now on exhibit at Galería Luis Adelantado. The title, Aprieto los ojos en la oscuridad (Press on My Eyeballs in the Dark), is taken from August Strindberg’s essay A Glance into Space, where he asks: “Is the sun round because it looks round to us? And what is light? [...] When it is dark and I press on my eyeballs, I first see a chaos of light, stars or sparks, which are gradually condensed and gathered up into a brilliant disk [...]. Is it the inside of the eye that the astronomer reproduces in word and image, and is it the lenses of the telescope that he photographs on the photosensitive plate?”