Nothing looks calmly in this hurried and technological reality. The everyday, the unusual, the extravagant happens without pauses. Meanwhile, in a click, Javier Pérez-Pla transforms those fleeting moments into memories. “It’s a click, Sugndo’s tenths,” he says. Photography has that power: stop time to keep the invisible.
That’s what it is about Retrospectivethe exhibition of the photographer Javier Pérez-Pla in the Palace of Infante Don Luis, who over more than twenty years and hundreds of travel, has traveled the world with his camera in his hands. From New York to Dakar, passing through Cuba, Jamaica, Paris or Kenya, his goal has not simply showing places, but to tell human, real, close stories. His work, without chronological order, shows a timeless reality that we could all talk about even if we had never been.
The images play with black and white to enhance the emotions that connect with the viewerJavier Pérez Pla
In Retrospective We discover the sensitivity of an artist who moves away from the mere instant image to show us a deep and leisurely vision. His photos speak of joy, but also of melancholy, of struggle, family, identity. They are windows that show other lives, but they are also mirrors where we see ours reflected.
Javier Pérez-Pla reminds us that photography, in its purest essence, is an act of love towards the world. And that in each image a story capable of moving us can hide, even if we know nothing about those who appear in it.
Poster of the exhibition ‘retrospective’Boadilla del Monte City Council
Until next June 8, the Music Room of the Infante Palace Don Luis in Madrid will house the photographer’s works, in an invitation to learn about the compendium of stories and lives observed through its camera. A photographic work that plays with the chromatic relationship between color and white photographs to enhance those emotions with which it seeks to connect the viewer.
