XXX, I

“XXX, I” is a journey through a mysterious road that explores the relationship between symmetry and its rupture; a journey through melancholy. Orbe's video art piece is related to Aristotle's treatise on melancholy, which distinguished between symmetrical and asymmetrical moods. It depended on the preeminence of one or the other whether melancholy was a disease or a quality of extraordinary men.

PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT

The exhibition presents a selection of 19 photographs taken in the early years of this new art that appeared in the mid-nineteenth century. All of them are images of the American Civil War that the artist searched for in archives in the United States. De Orbe intervenes them, resignifies them and gives them a second life, proposing a reinterpretation of the past mixed with his imagination.

The intention of the series is not to make a review of the conflict, but to elaborate a language with the photographic images of those years and the textures that the passage of time has engraved on them. The images of the series, treated with current digital techniques, represent a union between past and present, between two ways of working that add and enhance each other, forming a tribute to the solid and the eternal.