XÈNIA FUENTES

‘This series of images testifies the existence of the woman next door.A persona that in appearance seems like the artist. Undoubtedly, the body is the same;and the effusive gestures, for the most part too. And I say mostly, because the womannext door has particular gestures, which only belong to her. Like the swift way in whichshe pulls her hair. Or the singular capacity to expand her arms, waving colours. Or theinsistent way she hides her face from us.The woman next door likes to wander through uninhabited, empty spaces. As if sheneeded to divest herself of everything accessory.To become light. She has her own entity and personality, and I have only tried to photo-graph her.’

Xènia Fuente’s words on the exhibitionJanuary 2023

Xènia Fuentes (Barcelona, 1981) has focused her career around the research of the ideaof duality. What happens when the same person is in front of and behind the camera?The one that is exposed and observed at the same time, the photographer and themodel.

She establishes a dialog, a connection, between these two figures. As if with each im-age that she shoots, one tries to find the clue of the other. One tries to communicatewith the other.Starting from an intimate photography, and using the self-portrait and the nude asgenres, she explores her closest environment: home. Capturing the subtle changes thathappen in the atmosphere; throughout the day, depending on the time of the year.

She uses her body and her feminity to play with light, shadows, colours... And thus create a particular universe, from which to offer a mistery, an emotion.