MONICA DIXON (New Jersey, USA)
“Distant light”
Because the reality that will prevail in the face of our evanescence is not the individual objects, nor their particular configuration in space, but space itself and the light that reveals it.
Jose Luis Pastor Calle
(Extract text for the catalogue of the exhibition ‘In & Out’ at the Galería Mada Primavesi in Madrid, November 2010)
Over the last two years I have been developing what today makes up ‘Distant light’. Almost twenty pieces in which space, light, solitude and silence continue to be the common nexus of my work. My personal interest in this relationship pushes me to investigate those empty, or not so empty, spaces in which I have been working for more than a decade; luminous architectures that become passable with the gaze and that can refer us to existential concerns. Spaces without identity, built only with light and shadows. Those ‘non-places’ that today have become commonplaces in today’s society. I like to take this concept a little further. For this exhibition I have incorporated new chromatics to the different scenarios, thus creating new visual atmospheres. I could not miss in my third solo exhibition at Galería Caicoya another fundamental theme in my work, my dreamlike landscapes: undefined places in which we can all feel identified. These other ‘non-places’, the fruit of my reverie, are, in a way, a return to my origins. I always seek new atmospheres through light and space. They are the basis of my work and what moves me to continue creating.
Monica Dixon
November 2024