Israel Ariño, Res no passa dues vegades, 2024

“Curiously, the title of this work evokes the mythology of the decisive instant. The photographic kairos that allows us to better understand the previous instant and the next, just the opposite of Israel Ariño’s work. In his case, nothing is peremptory or immediate, there is no allusion to event or reality, much less truth. Through photography, he subverts the real: he does not photograph the world for what it is, but for what it conceals. This is what pervades his work: for him, photography is not a reflection of reality, but exceeds it.” From the text of the book by Caroline Bénichou