Wind

Ezequiel Montero Swinnen is a visual artist, photographer, designer and university professor, mainly working in photography, video, installation and drawing. He was invited to exhibit works from his  series Wind within the ´aceNITE of May 30th, 2018. A series of works in digital photography that refers to one of those natural elements that we can feel but not grasp, that we can make intelligible but not close it in fixed forms, we can only delineate, underline and highlight wind through putting it in relation with other objects.

ARTIST STATEMENT
Most of my works are derived from the impressions that I get from observing nature. The sky, the horizon, the birds, the clouds, the sun, the wind, the flowers, the stars. There is a dynamic that seems magical in all that, I perceive it as simple and sacred at the same time. Something that seems to be far beyond the duality of the human mind. Sometimes, everything that seems static is incredibly mobile, or what is mobile seems to be nailed to the eternity of a fixed point. I like to observe the dance that sustains the tension of the opposites. And gravity, magnetism, which is the orbit that connects them. I am interested in creating a space in which paradoxes can be reconciled, in which the spirit can be perceived with body or light matter in the extreme. I am especially attracted to the possibility of juxtaposing linear time with cyclic time, instant with duration, and observing what happens. As the empty may seem full or full, very empty.

In general, I work a lot with the air. I believe that in the air, and with the wind, the elements behave in uncertain but genuine ways: they fly, float, fall, collide, dance, work as suspended, sculptural, silent and slow devices. I am interested in experiencing movement in the timeless dimension. The idea of building an infinite present, absent from singular memory. Without much context in sight, there is always a great sense of nakedness linked to emptiness.

Many times dreams also inspire me. There, ordinary things connect in an extraordinary way. Anything is possible in the logic of dreams. The interesting thing is that what seems to have no meaning at first glance, then always has, surprisingly. For me, they are living, enigmatic, mysterious symbols, they keep moving and saying new things all the time. Like little diamonds in movement. I like to see my own work that way.