La gravedad
La gravedad / Michel Rein Gallery Paris October 20 – december 17, 2016 “Before all images, one must ask oneself, How it sees (us), thinks (of us) and touches (us).” 1 Gravity can mean many things, it’s true, but above all it’s a force; a force of attraction. When the artist throws pieces of black paper into a clear and transparent sky, this force is at work to make them fall back to the ground – light, fragile, vaporous. In the same way, when playing on contraries, he lights up small white papers on a night black background, creating an even more hypnotic contrast. “For me, these papers are like souls thrown into the sky, ideas, contestations, silent voices (that have been made silent), they also evoke the spherical aspect of the world, the night which reigns here, whilst it is daytime elsewhere” declares Enrique, touching on a very Borgesian […]