"We do not even want to photograph things but to create stories, that´s all. We just paint with light some imaginated landscapes".

 

Aitor Frias & Cecilia Jimenez (both born in 1985) are a Spanish duo of visual artists and photographers 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 photographs 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.

 

"Landscapes of the Memory" starts from the analysis of the mechanism by which memories work. A mechanism that fascinates them because of its ability to distort reality, to make it abstract and focus it into a perfect and absolutely beautiful minimalism. From this research process, they use that tool might be called "the created memory" to raise, from their position as artists, a series of unknowns and existential doubts about the human being.

 

ANALOGUE & DIGITAL Photography

 

Aitor & Cecilia started taking pictures in 2014 with their digital camera but recently (early 2016) they have discovered analogue Photography and have inmediately fallen in love with its possibilities. Film photography has captivated them because its magic and for the ability to capture with light their dreamed landscapes.

 

"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-

  

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(Spanish) "Ni siquiera buscamos fotografiar cosas sino crear historias, eso es todo. Simplemente pintamos con luz paisajes imaginados".

 

Aitor Frias & Cecilia Jimenez (ambos nacidos en 1985) son un dúo de fotógrafos con base en Granada, España. Su trabajo explora constantemente el colectivo imaginario, la memoria que habita en el subconsciente de todos nosotros. Lo que les interesa no es simplemente algo bello que esté ocurriendo frente a su cámara, sino hasta qué punto eso mismo ha sucedido -y sucederá- siempre. Sus fotografías muestran fragmentos, momentos, imágenes que se asemejan a las piezas de un rompecabezas donde algunas partes quedan incompletas para permitir que el espectador genere sus propias ficciones. Aitor Frías & Cecilia Jimenez muestran así mayor interés en lo que no se dice, en lo que no se ve, que en lo que se muestra explícitamente.

 

"Paisajes de la Memoria" parte desde el análisis del mecanismo según el cual funcionan los recuerdos. Un mecanismo que les fascina por su capacidad para distorsionar la realidad, para volverla abstracta y focalizarla en un minimalismo perfecto y absolutamente bello. A partir de este proceso de investigación hacen uso de esa herramienta que suelen llamar "el recuerdo creado" para plantear, desde su posición de artistas, una serie de incógnitas y dudas existenciales en torno al ser humano.

 

Fotografía ANALÓGICA & DIGITAL

 

Aitor & Cecilia comenzaron a tomar fotografías en 2014 con su cámara digital, pero recientemente (a principios de 2016) descubrieron la fotografía analógica e inmediatamente quedaron impresionados con los resultados y las posibilidades que ofrecía.