Vortex



—2025–ongoing
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[Installation shot at NeoGeo, Arco 2025]

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VORTEX takes us to the unknown interior of Icelandic hydrothermal volcanoes through heliography, an ancient photographic technique that uses sunlight to capture images. Paradoxically, this solar technique captures underwater spaces submerged in absolute darkness. 

The images, printed on aluminum plates treated with thermochromic patinas, react to the passing of the day, varying their colors according to the intensity and quality of the outside light, transforming into a true atmospheric thermometer that connects the exterior with an inaccessible and mysterious interior. 

These pieces react to the position of the sun, absorbing the wave frequencies specific to that moment, making them impossible to replicate and generating a completely handcrafted work that blurs the boundaries between alchemy and magic.

They are thresholds to the abyss, zones of geological transformation that challenge the relationship between the solid and the ethereal. Karlos has worked with a group of experienced divers in the depths of the Eyjafjörður fjord to represent the activity of these deep-sea volcanoes from within. These images are initially linked to the exterior, being really a representation of the depths of the ocean. However, these images do not emerge from darkness but from the sun.  Thus, paradox becomes the axis: how to capture what has not been seen, how to shape a landscape of shadows with the oldest light?











                                                                                                                 






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