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result have explored So many different avenues; | identify
‘ore with the going from here ta there than with the
Straightforward being here or there... realty Is the flow of the
whole whichis absolutely interconnected, Technology I
thing more than a possiblity of opening new windows
‘every time the technological spectrum has expanded our sense
(of reality and haw to see i have stretched accordingly.
interview with Alfonso Lopez Rojo, Laple Magazine, 1393)
believe that life isthe movement and the journey. a journey
{that goes everywhere and goes nowhere in which we travel and
‘explore, itis multple tip involng scouting out, exploring,
inward, meeting others, interacting and also forgetting.
(interview with Rosa Olivares, Lapiz Magazine, 1995)
fart does not nourish you, Is useless. This nourishment can
enhance our happiness, out beauty, our strength.” interview
with Merce Beltran, La Vanguardia, August 1, 2000),
‘Working withthe huge, while learning ta be stil in the mide
oft this s the best part of technology. tis very Important to
know what light is because Is linked to reality al realty could
be seen as a hologram." (conversations inthe studio, 2009)
Altera long career using light as a tool, Eugenia Bacells
proposed paying tribute tothe constituent elements of matter
fh the eomplesiy ad beauty of the tissue Ut they ate
Capable of producing intertwining ther range of colour.
Ancient wisdom and modern technology gather inthe rotating
has been slowly weaving on them stories of stories and films of
films that allow to perceive light asthe voce ofthe matter and
te travel with tthe world of images in which we ae immersed,
‘The history ofthe Arts, Sciences and Philosophy were coming
tagether an this project which has the installation
FREQUENCIES as a preface giving name tothe entire exhibition,
the installation COLOR WHEEL as its centre, and the
Installations LABYRINTH and MARBLE a its first gleams.
The current configuration includes the documentary fm
Contains the response from various school institutions to the
txhbition on the occasion of ts presence in Barcelona (Arts
Santa MOniea, Fall 2003)
The complexity ofthe projet, which is now hidden in the
apparent simplicity oft final form, i neluded in the
Catalogue of FREQUENCIES in two distinctive records. On the
Felating to each of the Installations; on the ather hand, n a
Selection of thoughts, doubts, findings and dificlies which
Ail along the process of eration the srist recognized in
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The cause ofthe comingintobeing ofall things ithe atomic whid. Democrivs
struetures sending and receiving light, capable of Intermixing to form
the visible world. Every rock, every plant, every animal and every person
contains within an infinite combination of Beams of light
The installation FREQUENCIES celebrates tis initial energy source from
which everything comes to be and pays tribute to the mystery hidden
‘within the matter thatthe anstic sensibilty and scientific curiosity strive
‘he Sun is justo bell whote sound emanate light roac Newton
Lah aves ife to the matter and triggers the arocesses of perception
that living beings are capable of Light allows the existence of images
nd atthe same time gives rise tothe metaphor that best describes the
process of knowledge
COLOR WHEEL is a sophisticated receptor gadget ofthe most diverse
‘mutations that involves the travel of light. e shapes a book of white
screens suspended in space, which briefly reflect the traces of light
trapped inthe filmed images; through such procedure the memory of
the universe t's writen.
COLOR WHEEL pursues this ultimate source of memories and makes
Visible the constant change of realty on the permanently curious retin,
single anchor point for everything that flows,
There ore no fied locations in space, Alber Einstein
‘Among the absolute darkness and the bright sunlight, the colors define
‘the shape and multiple profiles of reality. Shadows are faithful witness
tothe constant movement: they are recording time.
LABYRINTH refers to a point in the geography of Barcelona: one in
which North and South, front and rear, coming and going become
Indistinguishable. LABYRINTH Isa place of places in which realty, as
well as knowledge, finds blind holes and clarity avenues.
Tn the angel a tre marble nel cored ini | st him bros. Mickeke gto
Excavating a stone mountain hidden in the basis of the earth until it
becomes an open quarry and extracting from the bottom of the wound
boulders that reflect the jumble of colours we call white. A furrow in
the Portuguese region of Alentejo,
MARBLE refers tothe cluster and the well, toa place where you can
Find the hardness of the material andthe subtiety of the symbol, to the
Crossing pom in which Ie meets Geath, to how memory 1s the aW
material to any human ac.
Sound frequencies accompany the frequencies of light. The energy that
imaves the universe Is overwnelming: as Images hat escape from the
screens, as sound that is prolonged through vibration.
FREQUENCIES by Eugenia Baleels fs an Invitation to recognize the whole
inits pars. itis a concert of light bells which a numberof vistors have
Blready responded to ks voice is reflected inthe film RICE IS PLANTED
WITH RICE, that has been incorporated inta the project to tour with
Evllia Bosch
Curator