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Mis ángeles son vuestros demonios
TECHNICAL DATA
Author: Pablo Iglesias (Oviedo, 1974)
Title: Mis ángeles son vuestros demonios (My angels are your demons)
Year: 2007
Technique: siliconised colour photograph on aluminium
Size: 100×150 cm
This is one of the first pieces to be added to the Contemporary Art Collection, FMCMP, after the donation from four young Asturians as a result of the scholarship which, awarded by the María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation and Gijón City Council, allowed them to participate in the Photo Miami fair in 2007, one of the world’s leading events in the field of photographic and video art. The work, signed by Pablo Iglesias, was one of the first incursions of the man from Langreo into the discipline of photography. Its suggestive title gives us a clue to the habitual allegorical gaze of the author, which is accompanied by a careful compositional quality in this suggestive image in medium format, printed on aluminium.
The figure depicts the idea of an angel with drooping wings and hunched body, a metaphor for humans who distrust and try to hide their beauty, or a fearful Icarus wondering whether or not to fly to his death. Fears and doubts, invisible dialogues presented wrapped in the mystical light of the background, in almost Renaissance perspectives of religious iconography that are framed in one of the most common trends in current photography, where the female body is the protagonist of these symbolic compositions. In most of his works in video, painting or engraving, Pablo Iglesias gives his work a strong psychological edge, exploring universes full of narrative tension that do not stop at the easy anecdote but, on the contrary, compel the viewer to repeatedly rethink the meaning of the image proposed, simple in appearance but full of visual complicities. The composition pays tribute to the theatrical genre that also interests the artist, employing the camera as an expressive extension of his ideas and affirming that his work coordinates vary incessantly, as a result of the need for these constant transformations. He defines himself as a photographer with an intuitive style, whose images create expectation by avoiding indifference.