A bit over three centuries ago, wrapped in these walls, perhaps in this same Cell that today is our contemporary, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz reflected on perception and the possibility or the impossibility of knowledge, given the human limitations. Couldn’t reality, meaning the outward appearance that things offer us, just be a kind of shadow theater, something similar to the images that the Athanasius Kircher’s magic lantern projected, that primitive transparency projector invented by the wise Jesuit?

Immerse in that spirit, the artists that call us together in this moment under the invisible Light, use the same beginning to propose new reflections on an aesthetic level. Plastic forms pierce the beam of light, and the surfaces of the cell are transformed in the canvas where in each case, in an immaterial way, the chiaroscuro is captured on an even more extreme level: the mutant shadows of the object separated, sliced by rays of light.

Sofía Echeverri (…) achieves changing shadows from a more organic viewpoint, starting from a luck of intricate sculptural drawings that suggest microorganisms in movement, in continual mutation. Here shadows never repeat themselves, since the models hang by a thread, changing position in the air, which fosters a spontaneous and unrepeatable creation of contours, even an allusion of the unsuspected forms that life can acquire.

— gonzalo velez