LANDSCAPES OF THE MEMORY
Two young Freelance Photographers currently based in Granada, Spain. Their work constantly explores the collective imaginary, the memory that dwells in the subconscious of all of us. What interests them is not just something beautiful that is happening right now, in front of their camera, but to what extent it has always happened -and will always happen-.Their work shows fragments, moments, images that resemble the jigsaw pieces of a puzzle, of which some parts are left for the viewer to imagine and fill in the blanks. Aitor Frías & Cecilia Jimenez are more interested in what is not told, is not seen, than in what is explicitly shown.
"There is an ongoing narrative which weaves its way through their work; each new image revealing a further glimpse of an as yet incomplete story. We are drawn into their world which lies on the edge of fact and fiction; their work is a breathing organism, living out the course of its own life."
Kieran Austin -Inside Artists Magazine-
“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.” These are words by John Berger in “Ways of seeing”, and which we can relate to the artistic work of Aitor Frías & Cecilia Jiménez.
Lidia Costa -Brand New Art We Heart, Ballad of Magazine-
Exhibitions
LONDON 2015
Landscapes of the Memory
The Gallery Print Centre, Covent Garden, LONDON
Curated by SCAN (Spanish Contemporary Art Network)
8th-25th september
GRANADA 2015
Painting with Light:
Casa de la Cultura de Monachil, Granada (Spain).
Curated by Monachil Council
6th Feb to 4th March
Awards
2015
CENTRO EXTREMEÑO DE ESTUDIOS Y COOPERACIÓN CON IBEROAMÉRICA: 2nd Prize
III Monachil, "Present and Future" (2015): 2nd Prize
Fomunity "Moda" contest: Finalist
LensCulture Portrait Awards 2015: Selected by Editors
TOP TAGS indie, chill, Wild Nothing, Cults, beach house
Member since Dec 2015
