CYCLE A + A The night and the lightning

A flash of lightning flashes briefly in the dark immensity of the night and illuminates it. It is distinguished from darkness, but at the same time it points to it, magnifies it, and is part of it. Deleuze uses this image and the relationship that lightning, as a form, establishes with the background, which is the night, to think about difference. “Lightning, for example, can be distinguished from the black sky, but it must drag it with itself, as if it were distinguishable from what is not distinguishable“.[1] The philosopher delves into this motif, and talks about how the background emerges on the surface without ceasing to be the background.

The artistic projects that Oscar Holloway Actions I-II and Neus Masdeu  When the first star rises I-II  A+A carried out in the A+A cycle in ARBAR explore, from different practices, interests and attitudes, what is momentarily visible and distinguishes itself from a paradigm of darkness – literal or abstract – of which it is also a part. Works that involve, directly or indirectly, a reflection on vision, on perceptual thresholds, and that predispose us towards a type of attentive observation, aroused by conditions of reduced visibility or by the spurring of the search, to find what is hidden or initially not seen.

Curated by Alexandra Laudo

Image Oscar Holloway

[1]  Deleuze, Gilles. Diferencia y repetición (Buenos Aires: Amorrortu, 2002), 61.