FotoFever + FLUX / ZONE – Traces of Memory

The common thread that links Nostalgic Memory of my Life before Birth and IMA, on Impossible Memories is the emotional weight of the past at the moment of defining the present. A furtive nostalgia is transmitted through blood ties, even across distance; nevertheless, these are underground traces that reveal the passage of time, manifesting its indisputable presence. What reaches us are mere vestiges, or elusive fragments that transform upon meeting the memory of others, whether as documentary remains or as products of the imagination itself.

Both series emerge along a subtle line that merges with what was, what has been, and what could have been. The creative dialogue oscillates between the artistic interpretation of historical characters and events, capturing a recurring image as a vision of a changing memory—in the series Nostalgic Memory of my Life before Birth—and capturing an image that repeats as a vision of that mutable memory, in the case of IMA, on Impossible Memories.

On the other hand, the works seem to delicately permeate one another, as if the faded environments of Miquel Arques molded the ideal settings where Soler-Roig’s characters could dwell… Ownerless hands, anonymous hair, hidden silhouettes, unknown bodies: they are like empty vessels waiting to be occupied by the cultural identities of the ancestral collective imaginary.

Delmari Romero Keith

Curator Flux Zone