audiovisual at Las Cigarreras
International photography events return with photoalicante opening next Tuesday at MUA exhibitions, spotlighting two notable photographers and University of Miami professors who have long connected with the festival’s program. The exchange highlights the ongoing dialogue between urban imagery and experimental presentation in contemporary photography. [Citation: festival overview]
Both exhibitions unfold on March 14 at 19:00 in the Multi-Purpose room of the Alicante University Museum and will remain on display through the end of April. As a prelude, J. Tomás López will give a public talk at 18:00 to set the scene for the evening. [Citation: event schedule]
J. Tomás López is a professor and former director of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Miami. He is renowned for capturing portraits of subway riders and scenes from cities worldwide, as well as for recent explorations of flowers in decay. López presents the exhibition at MUA under the theme of aging, a concept describing how natural cells and tissues alter over time. His work reveals a photographer’s pursuit of beauty within the separation process of dead flowers, emphasizing composition, structure, and the nuanced interplay of color. [Citation: artist profile]
Jeff Larson is a photographer, artist and educator who lives and works in South Florida and teaches as a tenured professor at the University of Miami. His practice examines everyday objects as sources of artistic material. The project titled Darkness and Light acts as a response to recent social and political policies and to the isolation experienced during the last two years of the pandemic. It treats light as a symbol of life and growth, while exploring how darkness—associated with chaos and death—can exist in balance with illumination. [Citation: artist profile]
audiovisual at Las Cigarreras
In parallel, a digital intervention is already installed at Las Cigarreras titled Random. This piece, created by Baltasar and linked to Rafael Guijarro, who hails from Córdoba (born 1991), was invited to the festival by the Consorci de Museus. The project forms part of the black audiovisual programming for Caja Blanca at Las Cigarreras. [Citation: festival programming]
Pebble presents an audiovisual sequence that references the iconic French film Au Hasard Balthazar by Robert Bresson. In the installation, the director’s film is digitally altered and reassembled until the narrative becomes undefined. The feature remains present, but its footage is re-cut into standalone clips and rearranged by a computer algorithm, producing a continuous, rhizomatic flow of imagery rather than a linear story.