A priori, this image representing a rider and his horse immersed might be limited to its mystery and aesthetics. However, this would be reductive and ignore the work that Isabel Muñoz has been carrying out for more than 35 years, the content of which is documentary. For this exhibition at the Hangar, the Spanish photographer gave carte blanche to Delphine Dumont and her team who immersed themselves in her studio. The Brussels Photo Center has chosen to focus on the productions of the last ten years, when it made a turning point, attacking color and renewing its approach in depth. For this series devoted to water produced partly in Japan, Isabel Muñoz learned to dive and put aesthetics at the service of meaning. With “Agua”, it represents the multiple symbols of water, an essential component of the human body, source of life, etc. And alert on the pollution of the oceans by also seizing a freediver in the fight with plastic residues who is an ambassador for the climate in Japan. Divided into three parts, the exhibition is made up of around a hundred prints, videos, sounds and automatons completed by ten icons that made the reputation of the photographer who recently joined the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. to Madrid.
“Isabel Muñoz, Trance’n’dance”, from April 22 to June 18, 2022, at the Hangar Center d’Art (Brussels).
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