From tomorrow Thursday to August 29, the Instituto Cultural of Mexico in Spain (Carrera de San Jerónimo, 46) Embassy of Mexico, presents the exhibition Aesthetics of absence, by the Mexican artist Ulises Verde. The inauguration will take place tomorrow Wednesday at 29 hours, with the presence of the artist and a toast of honor.
The show brings together two key moments of Ulises Verde’s work: the series Absence of Presence, developed during the pandemic, and the most recent collection, Aesthetics and Sublime Nature, made between 2023 and 2024. Both phases, although marked by different contexts, dialogue with each other around the perception, interiority and tension between what is shown and what fades.
The present show unfolds as a single gesture: a visual and sensitive exploration of what it means to be, disappear and inhabit the world from within. The Sublime Aesthetics and Nature collection is configured as a continuation and expansion of the language developed in the previous phase. In it, the sublime does not refer only to the greatness of the natural, but a form of altered perception: that which overflows our understanding and leads us to a radical aesthetic experience. Through a paused gaze, Ulysses captures moments that are not limited to the recording of the outside world, but reveal a silent surrender to the present, to detail and to the contained emotion. Each image thus becomes a meeting point between artist and viewer.
The works gathered in Aesthetics of Absence do not illustrate a discourse, they provoke it. They invite us to stop and dwell on that threshold between the real and the imagined, between what is remembered and what has not yet been said. Photography, here, is language and question. A way of being with others, without need to explain, just showing what they remain on the edge of sight.