Est quod visum placet

Est quod visum placet Beautiful is what pleases the eye
- Saint Thomas Aquinas

Something that surprises me in life is the wonder of consciousness, that window that suddenly opens onto a sunny landscape in the middle of the night of not being.
- Vladimir Nabokov

In writing these lines, Nabokov cannot help but speak of something beautiful as an object of consciousness: a sunny landscape seen through a window frame.

This thought inspires the show that Patricia Conde Galería is presenting on this occasion, a series of windows to nature in the work of: Renate Aller, Alejandro Cartagena, Juan Carlos Coppel, Javier Hinojosa, Michael Kenna, Patricia Lagarde, Moisés Levy, George Nobechi, Erwin Olaf, Oswaldo Ruiz, Cynthia Serur