Simetries. Koke Pursals

This exhibition grows from two obsessions that have long accompanied me: the pursuit of symmetry and a fascination with museums. Two impulses that share the desire to impose order on chaos.

The journey unfolds in three moments. First, pure symmetries: staircases ascending and descending in perfect correspondence, rooms mirroring one another, chessboard floors that promise order yet conceal a certain vertigo. In these forms I seek a kind of calm, as if symmetry could become a principle for organizing the world.

Then, the museums: the Louvre, Tate Modern, MoMA, the Neues Museum, the Venice Biennale, Documenta in Kassel, the Royal Academy… What interests me is not so much photography on display as the act of displaying it and contemplating it. The vitrines, the corridors, the visitors who pause or pass by. I am also drawn to the reflections of the city in the glass, sculptures in dialogue with the exterior architecture, the constant threshold between the museum’s interior and the world that surrounds it.

Finally, Arles, where I feel both obsessions converge. Medieval churches transformed each summer into exhibition spaces, Romanesque stone framing digital photography. The symmetry of the container embraces the temporality of the content, which disappears until the following July.

In the end, my obsession with symmetrical is, at its core, a form of melancholy: the certainty that the world could be ordered, if only we knew where to draw the line.

Curated by Pepe Font de Mora
In collaboration with Joan Pifarré of FotoColectania