For this exhibition, Juan-Manuel Castro Prieto has reinvented the memory and the recollection of landscapes that he had already photographed (Machu Picchu, the ancient 15th century Inca town in Peru, standing on a promontory, and Almeria in Andalusia) inviting the viewer to a complicit exchange. These landscapes, filled with history, seem to belong to an imaginary album. An album that has been saved from the scratches of time, including photographs in an irreversible process of destruction. He has turned the landscapes into metaphorical subjects that will become the central axis of a story with dreamlike echoes; a story made of threads, where the past collides with the present. The traces, the tint or the obtained colors turned to gold, can also be interpreted as scores of time. In relation to the random imperfections produced by this technique, they bring us into a bizarre universe, halfway between dream and reality. “These are the traces of a symbolic topography that evokes the construction of our own experience; the ruins that speak about the coexistence of the memory with life in motion…” states Juan-Manuel Castro Pierto. A young talent as an unexpected certified artist.

Juan Manuel Castro Prieto
El álbum perdido. Virages à l’or

Jusqu’au 3 septembre

Galerie VU’
Hôtel Paul Delaroche
58, rue Saint-Lazare
75 009 Paris