Miren Pastor
Winner of the ING Unseen Talent Award 2016 Public Prize
The yearly ING Unseen Talent Award was initiated by ING and Unseen to empower young, artistic photography talent and to provide them with a platform, network and expertise. Winners of the Public Prize are given a commission to create new artistic work.
Description
Among the mountains, in the heart of the Iberian Peninsula, lies a river that years ago had its flow regulated by a dam. The beauty of the rocky outcrops that the locals had contemplated for centuries was replaced by the beauty of the reservoir, which also brought agricultural, energy and recreational wealth to the area.
The river flow is unstable and its level rises and falls drastically based on the rainfall, alternately reflecting one of these two beauties but never both at once. This work uses the metaphor of an x-ray (the idea of "seeing through") to simultaneously show both beauties, two different times in a single space. A Nature domesticated by humans that is a generator of wealth but still reveals itself in the shape of unstable and uncontrollable cycles that remind us of our humble place in the Universe. Once we fully grasp where we stand, it becomes easy to move forward with greater confidence.Iván del Rey de la Torre
Iván del Rey de la Torre
Mendilerroen artean, ibai bat dago Iberiar Penintsulako erdialdean eta urteak dira presa batek bere ur fluxua arautzen duena. Mendeetan zehar bertako biztanleek ingurune harritsuaren edertasunaz gozatu izan arren, urtegiak edertasun hori ordezkatu zuen, nekazaritza, energia eta aisialdirako aberastasunak ekarriz inguruari.
Ibai honen fluxua ezegonkorra da eta euriaren arabera, bere maila modu erradikalean aldatzen da, bi edertasun horietako bat erakutsiz, baina inoiz ez biak aldi berean. Hemen aurkezten den lanak x izpien metafora erabiltzen du (“zerbaiten bidez ikustea”) aldi berean bi edertasunak agerian utziz, denbora ezberdin bi, espazio berean. Giza izaera daukan natura hau, aberastasun sortzailea izanik, oraindik ziklo ezegonkor eta kontrolik gabekoetan erakusten da, Unibertsoaren leku apal batean kokatzen gaituelarik. Non gauden ulertzen dugunean, erraza da segurtasun gehiagorekin oinez jarraitzea.Iván del Rey de la Torre
Installation Views
ING Office, calle Génova 27, Madrid.
Installation of 5 photographs printed on aluminium (from left to right):
1- 40x26,6 cm
2- 35x23,33 cm
3- 50x33,3 cm
4- 35x23,33 cm
5- 40x26,6 cm
Back piece printed on wood of 200x120 cm.
Pre-press: La Troupe
Printing: Estudios Durero
Assembly: V15
Exhibition architecture photography: Luis Marino Cigüenza