Aura Revealed
Mexico - November 2022
Miguel Soler-Roig
Aura is the Greek goddess of the breeze, her virtue is to be as swift as the wind. Aura flows, moves fast, generates a positive vibration around her: she is the paradigm of the contemporary woman in the context of today's fast-paced society. The way to represent this power that, also, protects and exalts, is through the veil, an element that alludes to the celestial dome and the separation between the upper and lower worlds [1].The role of the veil is equivalent to the firmament that divides the material and spiritual worlds. Therefore, removing veils or garments and stripping off ornaments are gestures that are associated with the search for truth. To speak of the transformative power of feminine values, Miguel Soler-Roig travels to Greece and uses mythology as a set of stories based on the imagination that explain the universe and activate the power of individuals. In a way, myths are an altered and pseudo oneiric version of reality. In dreams everything is possible: people acquire superhuman powers, the natural becomes supernatural, the weak becomes powerful... There is a sort of inversion of contexts and scenarios. In short, another version of the real, more exciting, exotic, magical and surprising.
In the exhibition Aura Revealed, the two experiential stages -dream and reality- are shown through the goddess Aura as a connecting figure, symbolized in photographic images -accompanied by the veil- in its most earthly attribute. In the images we see the veil in suspension, surrounding the goddess and empowering her, preparing her access to the dimension of dreams, but making it clear that she is still in the territory of the real: this is confirmed by a fourth photograph of the veil resting on a rock.
Upon entering the space, we enter a dreamlike universe inhabited by the representation of the goddess Aura in full exercise of her power. Her potentiality has been revealed. This particular and magical cosmos is expressed through the digital technique of solarization combined with the superimposition of layers of images and texts. The visual multiplication through transparencies allows the viewer several levels of reading: on the one hand, the exaltation of the figure of the Greek goddess in various stages; on the other, the strength of the elements that accompany the air, like the fire, water and earth. To close the circle of this enveloping fiction, texts with a Greek-like calligraphy are integrated into the photographs. They are poems written by the artist. Integrated into the images they become visual poems. Mystery arises in their messages...are they real? can they be deciphered? The questions remain in the mind of the observer, but among the questions there is a certainty: in one of the photographs, the word GODDESS emerges between the letters of an original Greek slab. The subtlety of reality overflows fantasy and overwhelms.
Delmari Romero Keith
Curator
Flux Lab Gallery
Clark Winter
Aura Revelada
México - November 2022
Miguel Soler-Roig
Aura is the Greek goddess of the breeze, her virtue is to be as swift as the wind. Aura flows, moves fast, generates a positive vibration around her: she is the paradigm of the contemporary woman in the context of today's fast-paced society. The way to represent this power that, also, protects and exalts, is through the veil, an element that alludes to the celestial dome and the separation between the upper and lower worlds [1].The role of the veil is equivalent to the firmament that divides the material and spiritual worlds. Therefore, removing veils or garments and stripping off ornaments are gestures that are associated with the search for truth. To speak of the transformative power of feminine values, Miguel Soler-Roig travels to Greece and uses mythology as a set of stories based on the imagination that explain the universe and activate the power of individuals. In a way, myths are an altered and pseudo oneiric version of reality. In dreams everything is possible: people acquire superhuman powers, the natural becomes supernatural, the weak becomes powerful... There is a sort of inversion of contexts and scenarios. In short, another version of the real, more exciting, exotic, magical and surprising.
In the exhibition Aura Revealed, the two experiential stages -dream and reality- are shown through the goddess Aura as a connecting figure, symbolized in photographic images -accompanied by the veil- in its most earthly attribute. In the images we see the veil in suspension, surrounding the goddess and empowering her, preparing her access to the dimension of dreams, but making it clear that she is still in the territory of the real: this is confirmed by a fourth photograph of the veil resting on a rock.
Upon entering the space, we enter a dreamlike universe inhabited by the representation of the goddess Aura in full exercise of her power. Her potentiality has been revealed. This particular and magical cosmos is expressed through the digital technique of solarization combined with the superimposition of layers of images and texts. The visual multiplication through transparencies allows the viewer several levels of reading: on the one hand, the exaltation of the figure of the Greek goddess in various stages; on the other, the strength of the elements that accompany the air, like the fire, water and earth. To close the circle of this enveloping fiction, texts with a Greek-like calligraphy are integrated into the photographs. They are poems written by the artist. Integrated into the images they become visual poems. Mystery arises in their messages...are they real? can they be deciphered? The questions remain in the mind of the observer, but among the questions there is a certainty: in one of the photographs, the word GODDESS emerges between the letters of an original Greek slab. The subtlety of reality overflows fantasy and overwhelms.
Delmari Romero Keith
Curator
Flux Lab Gallery