Rodrigo Palma

Art Latinou presents a tour of Rodrigo Palma's studio, concluding with his exhibition Lo que queda cuando baja la marea.

A visit to Rodrigo Palma's studio, where the public will be able to see the artist's working environment, his archive of images, materials, and recent processes. The activity will allow for an intimate conversation about the production of the exhibition and its relationship with the image.

The exhibition brings together a collection of images in which the photographic gesture is stretched into a single current. The pieces, both black and white and color, oscillate between the atmospheric and the intimate: skies that open up, mineral textures, bodies that fold like waves. Some images have been altered with paint, as if a will insisted on defining what the camera cannot capture; others incorporate plastic objects collected on the beach, fragments of a landscape that is also waste. The pieces contained in light boxes seem to maintain a frozen movement, as if the scene still held an internal tension, as if the landscape still breathed. In contrast, the pieces framed in wood look inward: views of the human body that expand the horizon toward ourselves, also a territory in the process of erosion.

–Luis Manuel Perea