Bancaja Foundation. Tetouan, 23
We can say that a true artist is one who sees gaps in the world, and creates from them areas of thought. Juan Fabuel has done it. The striking photographs that populate the room on a black background are the result of the project that Fabuel has developed for eight years in which he has photographed various points of the peninsular Mediterranean coast, from the Canary Islands, from Italy and Greece. They are all of them geographical enclaves marked by migratory flows and humanitarian crises, beautiful landscapes that mean rest and pleasure for some, but uncertainty, hope and fear for others. The techniques are, the least, surprising: all the shots were taken at night and with the only light of the moon, and not with any moon, but only during the waxing gibbous moon phases, full moon and waning gibbous moon, always with a long exposure time. The resulting landscapes are unreal, cloudy, suggestive and possess the magnetism that can only be conferred by such a particular luminosity and the traditional analog method. GLORIA POZUELO
