Israel Ariño, ATLAS – SPECIAL EDITION, 2012

Atlas is a personal response to the challenge of representing the nomadic nature of experience. Israel Ariño’s gaze slips into reality and is transformed into an extraordinary and timeless world, captured and invented at the same time. Objects emerge slowly and the sensations evoked in his photographs only appear when the image materialises and the observer looks at it. Only then can we see poetry, waiting, huddled in the treetops, or in a half-open figure, in the reflections of a river, in a ghostly jellyfish or in the joy of momentary abandon.

Israel Ariño plays with different experiences and treats them as obsessive ideas that reveal themselves in multiple photographs. It is the creative manifestation of a personal landscape, the mapping of an imaginary space created by an inner entity that, although intentional, is never fully specified or clearly defined, like an ancient map where contours and outlines are lost in unexplored lands, which in turn invite new explorations and creations.

This special edition includes a silver salt print (18×24) signed to the author.