LIDIA BENAVIDES – CLEAR LIGHT OF EMPTINESS
2014-06-02Lidia Benavides (b. Madrid, 1971), artist who focuses her investigation into light as an autonomous visual language, holds a doctorate in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, with a thesis titled “Light as visual language and its significance: space, movement and perception”. Since 1998 she has been working on this complex and attractive theme by means of a series of photographs, light-boxes, videos and installations, always working on series such as natural light/artificial light in which she modelled light-beams, reflections and refractions in shots using daylight and sources of electric light; in infrared/ultraviolet exhibited in Photoespaña 00 the artist inquired into wavelengths invisible to the human eye. In 2002 she held her first exhibition in the gallery, then known as Galer´a Estiarte, with the series Filters, Antidotes and Heavenly Juice, photographs in which she shows the subtlety, the veilings, the purity of an abstract language, in which light is the basis of her creation.
In 2004 she exhibited for a second time in Estiarte with a series titled Cosmorama, signifying the optical device used to increase the size of objects by means of a camera obscura. The series consisted of two series of photographs, a photo-installation of 22 photographs and a video. In the prologue to the catalogue, Oscar Alonso Molina wrote: “These bodiless sparkles, phantasmagorical auras and fumaroles resound in the bottom of each one like echoes of the same resonance box: the exacerbated sensitivity to light and the colour of Lidia Benavides”.
Exhibition runs through to July 12th, 2014
Galería Pilar Serra
C/ Santa Engracia, 6 Bajo Centro
28010 Madrid
Spain
