"Trilogy of the soul. Transcendence"

“Trilogy of the soul. Transcendence” is the second solo photography exhibition at Moret Art by Soledad Córdoba, a renowned Asturian artist based in Madrid. This project, carried out in 2019, was the result of the prestigious Leonardo grant for researchers and cultural creators 2017 from the BBVA Foundation, with which the author takes a tour of American deserts, finding in them the “propitious place for revelation, for transcendence”, in the words of Zara Fernández de Moya, curator of the project.

Trilogy of the Soul is a large-scale multidisciplinary project made up of three parts or movements: Transcendence, Purification and Rebirth. The author states: “Trilogy of the Soul is a journey of the soul where shamans, magicians, initiates, pilgrims and warriors are necessary, they are the guides on this journey. Through them the infinite questions of the soul are deposited, through them the states of the soul are experienced” —Córdoba maintains that the soul has six states: resistance, sacrifice, detachment, transcendence, purification and rebirth—. “The immeasurable, the abysmal desert, is contemplated and inhabited by an ambivalent feeling of anguish and joy. The awareness of the superiority of nature would lead the artist to ask about the primordial enigmas, about the states of the soul already explored in Devastation and Resistance, the germ of this Trilogy of the Soul,” says Fernández de Moya.