Exhibitions
Listening to the silence, capturing the ephemeral
A slow look at time and fragility through the contemplative photography of Carme Gotsens.
The Sant Andreu de Llavaneres Museum hosts Escoltar el silenci , a collection of photographs that delves into time, fragility and moments of pause. With a slow and attentive look at every detail, the exhibition invites us to stop and observe what often goes unnoticed: subtle gestures, natural forms and moments that seem to be suspended in time. This work does not have a specific narrative or explanation, but seeks to open a space for contemplation and personal experience in front of the image.
Carme Gotsens was a teacher and director of the Sant Felip Neri School in Barcelona, although she is also a photography teacher – due to her expertise – although she has not taught in this discipline. A self-taught artist, she began taking photographs on her travels, but she did not seek to capture a landscape photograph, but rather delved into the capture of shapes and textures and into experimentation with light, looking for details that often go unnoticed, with a curious look.
Gotsens defines photography as a contemplative act, in which he explores what is often overshadowed: silence, the passage of time and the fragility of existence. His images, delicate as the trace of the full moon on the water, have an almost painterly quality that dialogues with impressionism and symbolism, through a contemporary language. He understands photography not as an art to freeze moments in eternity, but as an act of contemplation, a way of transforming what we see with the naked eye into an aesthetic experience where the visible becomes a metaphor, building a visual language that speaks of fragility, beauty and memory.
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