DISTIRA

There is a relationship that we understand as magical when we submerge and emerge back. Crossing the surface of the water becomes a symbolic act that can be identified in different cultures as a rite of transformation.

There are many stories from ancient times that speak about transformation closely linked to life and death, to rituals that symbolize the creative and destructive power of water. Like the Māori traditional story that tells of a magical lake with the ability to transform life. This power came from the moon submerging itself in the river water to die there, but emerging alive again in a new form to return to the sky. A story where death is not an end, but only the prelude to a change of form.

Irati Inoriza presents an exhibition articulated through a series of pieces and reflections suspended in a line of transit between what they are and what they can become. The works that compose it create a tension through a play of symbolic elements and forms that invite bodies to move from one state to another, giving us the possibility of entering another place.

Distira means brightness in Basque — specular apparitions that try to keep their trace like a flickering light, even if only in the memory of their vision. A light that shines mysteriously and leaves the trail of a new form and new meanings in its fragility, from an imprecise and deep place of the gaze.

It is curious to see how reflected things dissolve in the water, and in their movement invite the viewer to enter a second reality, where the surface of the water acts as a liminal space between the known and the undiscovered.

The doubled images in the exhibition invade the viewer’s space and move between the real world and its phantasmagoria, creating a series of relationships in which everything is sustained by the possibility of becoming something else — on the edge of visibility.