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The self-taught photographer Vari Caramés (Ferrol, Galicia, 1953) presents one of his most outstanding and personal series SWIMMING from November 17 to December 15, 2022 within the framework of the Gijón Photographic Meetings directed by our photographic curator Esther Maestre.

Caramés began experimenting with photography at the age of 15 and, since then, has not stopped creating and researching, using color and black and white interchangeably, playing with focuses and frames and tirelessly searching for the limits and new frontiers of the youngest of the Fine Arts.

His lens turns the ordinary into the extraordinary and the defect into an effect. Moments frozen in a timeless instant that seek to connect with the viewer, evoke memories, emotions and sensations in a world tinged with mystery and poetry.

Caramés grew up surrounded by art and painting and we can see this imprint in the almost painterly approach that many of his series take. The pieces that make up SWIMMING are a selection of the enormous quantity of negatives that the artist produced between 1986 and 1990 in a public swimming pool. The resulting set of blurred lines, floating bodies and contrasts of light and shadow reminds us of charcoal and manages to convey the weightlessness, the difficult materiality and the subtlety of water.

Vari Caramés Exhibition

VARI CARAMES

3.461 €

VARI CARAMES

3.461 €

VARI CARAMES

3.461 €

VARI CARAMES

3.461 €