Bosque de Luz

Through fifty photographs, Light forests shows the last eight years of work of Juan Manuel Ballester, painter and photographer, awarded the National prize of photography 2010 for his personal career and for his unique interpretation of the architectural space and the light. The rigorous selection of photographs that now occurs in the Promotion of the art space of Tabacalera, carried out by curators Maria de Corral and Lorena Martinez de Corral, allows us to peek at the evolution that has been brewing in his work over this past decade.

Ballester work always gravitates around three key: the time, light and space. In words of the curator, "the artist does not intend to develop a specific photographic language, but using the lens as a witness to justify, register, qualify and questioning the present and progress"