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05/17/2024 - 09/06/2024
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?”
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?”