The History Museum of Valencia, MHV, offer up to next the exhibition in June Guillermo Alarcon. matter, machine, memory, a journey through the work of the Valencian photographer (1957–2019) what has thist curated by art specialist Ana Gandia Casasnovas. The exhibition offers a wide selection of black and white works by the author i, as the promoters have emphasized, raises a traffic through them based on the tension between the human gaze and the logic of the machine. In fact, the exhibition does not follow a linear narrative, rather, it is articulated in a circular route that is based on the three conceptual axes of the title: matter: limprint of doing; machine: order and rhythm; and Memory: ethe silence of work. All these concepts dialogue with each other and invite the people who visit the exhibition to an active construction of meaning.
The exhibition proposal reflects the transformation proposed by Alarcón of industrial spaces and metal structures in scenarios of intense visual and symbolic charge. yours images propose a poetic approach to the matter, athe silence and a the geometry dthatproductive.
The first area, dedicated to the subject, titled 'Limprint of doing, emphasizes the physical elements of the industrial environment: metal, stone, pols or fum. Alarcón's photographs reveal the texture and density of these materials, giving them an almost sculptural presence. The second space, starring the machine, and entitled 'Order and rhythm' raises the parallelism between the photographer's eye and the engineer's, with compositions that stand out for lines, rhythms and repetitions that respond to the logic of the industrial system. Finally, the Memory section: ‘The silence of work’ reflect on the passage of time and, in him, empty factories and disused workshops become “quiet places” where the absence of activity transforms the space into a latent memory file. The photographic image not only preserves, rather, it reactivates the memory of these territories beyond their original function.
