'The Ignored Poetry of Slowness'

2023

A way to deepen into a scene would be to start with silence, from the point where the dialogue is cut off. Slowness intervenes into silence and stabilizes the poetic flow for a moment, in order to observe the parodic and include it into the eternal. 

These works seek to embrace an environment of silence and suggestive scenography, where serenity emerges out of acceptance of the inevitable. It is about a poetic daydream that sets free a sphere of pure idealization, which idealizes nothing and is free from the burden of passions and desires. 

Two different chronicles abolish motion. Figures immobilize movement, visualizing time and silence. Slowness on its part remotes those moving elements that direct poetic approaches to the visible. Thus, realistic compositional forms coexist with allegorical scenes, as if the unwritten music of completeness or freedom. They all conclude with a poetic picture, which is only possible where there is a slow pace since poetry maintains the richness of minimum, the intimate and enigmatic components of the visual world.

Photography by Zigmars Steins