Festival Actual 2020 :: Duality
Las matemáticas, el yoga, la física o cualquier paradigma filosófico aportan diferentes enfoques al principio de la dualidad: percepciones, abstractos estados de conciencia o complejas fórmulas.
Tomás Martínez y Robert Pichler unen creatividad y técnica para representar la dualidad interior en imágenes. Alejándose de los conceptos tradicionales de la pareja, la serie 'Duality' muestra, con una técnica clásica de elevado contraste y un solo punto de luz como guía estética, dos seres –en el sentido mas metafísico–, invitando al observador a descubrir su propia dualidad.
Aunque metódicamente escenificados, son los modelos quienes proponen su dualidad en cada escena: parejas heterosexuales y homosexuales, un hombre aparentemente femenino o una persona atrapada en sus fantasías son algunos de los representantes de esta serie.
Una cuerda (guiada por el arte japonés de atar Shibari) es, junto con la luz, el medio usado para constituir la tensión, unión o separación implícita en la dualidad.
In Logroño/Rioja/Spain the new year started with the Festival Actual 2020 celebrating its 30th anniversary.
The festival was opened with the photo-exhibition „Duality“ by the Riojan autor and fotographer Tomás Martínez who has lived in Austria for more than 20 years. With his works in black and white he invites us to release what we carry inside ourselves.
The author explaines that the models were involved in the creation process of the photos each of them expressing their own understanding of duality.
In this photo for example, the model reveals what from her point of view is important in a relationship: to be able to let go and fully trust the partner.
Another picture shows two men kissing each other.
They are not homosexual but brothers. One of them is the author himself who wants to invite the visitor to take a deeper insight into new perspectives on duality.
Each of us has got various parts of personality, we should open up and re-integrate them. The intention is to break ccustomed taboos.
The photos were taken with only the use of a single direct light source in close cooperation with the Austrian photographer Robert Pichler.