Since the beginning of time, an army of light flooded everything around us. Every day and every night, the moon, the sun and the rest of the stars, seconded by the brilliance of millions of lighthouses that, all over the planet, break the obscurity of darkness, come out to meet us to reveal, with their light, a universe in full color that vibrates to the rhythm of our senses. The incarnated poetry of the sunset, the flickering dance of fire, the rainbow reflected in the crystals of a chandelier, the pearly glitter of the sand on the beach, or the sea blue of the water that bathes it, are images that, through two messenger eyes that know the language of light, connect with our deepest sensibility; that which often awakens unexpected and often inexplicable emotions, but which, at the same time, defines us as human beings.

From Goethe to Plato, many have elevated the sense of sight to the category of divine. The eyes are our particular window to the world; a window whose crystals, however, filter reality, interpreting and redefining it. Because, after all, light and color do not exist beyond our sensory perception, and, therefore, their reading is inevitably subject to the context that deciphers it.

Although color has ended up forming a whole symbolic language that varies in each culture, light, in its eternal dichotomy with shadow, has generally been used as a metaphor for metaphysical concepts linked to the transcendence of being. This expressive potential of light as a spiritual elevation is present throughout the history of art, from the most ancient representations of solar deities, through the chromatic sieve of Gothic stained glass, to the marriage of the Impressionists with light. The phenomenon of light as an artistic resource seems to be incombustible.

It is light brings together the work of five artists whose work traverses this universe inhabited by light beams, electrical impulses and hypnotic colors that seeks to transcend the sensory perception of the viewer through their interaction with it. The exhibition proposes a journey through a series of pieces that invite introspection, while invoking the subjective qualities of color. Thus, we will be able to engage in conversation with the luminous experiments of Lidia Benavides (Madrid, 1971), the enveloping landscapes of Carmen Laffón (Seville, 1934), the ode to blue of Ángeles San José (Madrid, 1961), the interactive sculpture of Anaisa Franco (Brazil, 1981), and the chromatic visions of Virginia Rivas (Madrid, 1981). Thus, different approaches to the effects of light and its relationship with the environment merge in this group show to make the viewer travel to other worlds bathed in neon lights, flashes and color.

Ainoa López Riesco