“Meditaciones sobre las distancias infinitas” is the new exhibition by Valencian artist Ana Císcar at Jorge López Gallery. “Meditaciones sobre las distancias infinitas” is the new exhibition by Valencian artist Ana Císcar at Jorge López Gallery.

The artist's work explores the value of the image and its narrative potential. In her pieces, she delves into the tension that arises from attributing to documentary photography the quality of faithfully representing reality, contrasting it with the interpretive, constructed narrative character attributed to the arts, and particularly to painting. Císcar specializes in the field of Contemporary Thought and Visual Culture.

Ana begins by appropriating old photographs, from archives and newspapers, which she translates into visual language through a complex process of image montage, based on blurring, recomposing, and juxtaposing the originals. This unique deconstructive strategy allows her to rethink and reactivate the material used, turning certain imaginaries on their head and questioning the politics of visuality. The result is hybrid paintings that, while they may retain the appearance of a document of reality, possess a tone of unsettling strangeness.

Javier Moral Martín, autor del texto de sala interpreta: Javier Moral Martín, author of the exhibition text, interprets: “There are ways to survive a world replaced by its image. We can deny its representations and try to look at the world directly, but we can also take the opposite path: recovering the world through the exhaustion of images. Of the two options, Ana chooses the second… she collects, looks and explores, digs, gathers and piles up, amasses images—but also images of images. She then puts them in succession and confronts them, cuts them, folds and tears them, interweaves them, subjects them to the alchemy of montage and chance, disconnects them from their immediate meaning until they break, until they bend so that at the end of the process, in their translation to the pictorial format, they end up revealing a glimmer ”