Press release
The blue of distance
Mixing traditional crafts and rituals with various photographic processes, Jorge Rosano Gamboa (1984, Mexico) tries to re-signify what we mean by «revelation».
The blue of distance is part of a re-appropriation of a popular legend that is very much present in modern-day Mexico - the miraculous appearance of the Virgin of Guadalupe to farmer Juan Diego in 1531on Cerro del Tepeyac - translated into a contemporary language. Thanks to photography and the cyanotype process, Rosano Gamboa replays, on December 12 each year, the moment of the revelation
of this night divinity. He then climbs to the top of Mount Tepeyac to capture the starry sky on canvas, creating a trace similar to the image appeared of the heavenly mantle of the Virgin.
This project also reflects the artist’s obsession with blue, its history, mythology and symbolism, an obsession born from a childhood nourished by this Marian tradition.
Through the works on display, the blue of distance aims to highlight the threshold between the ethereal (the miracle of representation) and the earthly (the representation of the miracle).