Zona de penumbra, 2026

Audiovisual installation

Javier Bejarano’s proposal for this exhibition is based on his work Zona de Penumbra (Penumbra Zone), in which this multifaceted artist invites us to delve into a reality shaped by his own indeterminacy. On the one hand, there is the place, a kind of shrubby landscape criss-crossed by paths, perhaps on the edge of a forest; and, on the other, there is the moment when that reality is revealed to us: the twilight transition between day and night, a moment captured in a series of photographs in which day and night meet. A space that is a threshold and in which what Freud theorised under the name of the Unheimliche, that is, an “uncanny strangeness”, occurs.

In this environment, everything seems inhabited; there is a sense of presence. The gaze makes its way through the darkness, sensing that at any moment it may be reflected in another gaze, confrontational, lurking. In this twilight zone of uncertainty, seeing and desiring seem indistinguishable. It is a crossroads, a place where the gaze seeks signs of an encounter with another gaze that is looking back. Looking and knowing oneself to be looked at as the dynamic of an experience of place.

This project by Javier Bejarano approaches hidden places where the unexpected lurks. These are often areas where the urban gives way to nature and where, based on the way the gaze operates in them, a constant sense of appearance and event is enabled. For this exhibition, the artist goes further by recreating that atmosphere in the formation of a space where the audiovisual and the tangible become experience.

Artist: Javier Bejarano

Artwork included in the exhibition: De rerum natura. On the nature of things