Considering that one of the ways to know yourself is through comprehending the place where you are, one of the methods to present oneself consists of showing the place where you live. The field where personal relationships get established or the continent where the closest emotions get trapped. According to the meaning that a place may have to someone, this will be represented in one or another way. So, if what we see is an image of a space filled with any kind of material, it is not difficult to imagine that in that same space a life takes place. On the contrary, if what you show are empty spaces or walls without any trace, is not difficult to imagine that what is getting concentrated in that place is what is not there anymore. Those experiences which took place where no one else is anymore, remain empty and without any other life but the one that beats in the memory. From the one who was there while the space was still breathing.
Without trying to recapitulate, what Paul Ekaitz shows in an exhibition, which will take place in March in a Barcelona Gallery, is a 3 dimensional journey trough a place where he already was, although what would be more fair to say is that his proposal is a symbolic and chromatic approximation to what he experienced within the walls of these places: small and narrow places, visible or invisible contemplating us from above; spaces of intense colour in the function of the relationship that he held with its occupants, a space as a container of the spaces he got to know, places where he walked through and the loss that they represent.
Summoning the viewers to contemplate a space either from above through its entries or inviting them to look around its inside, Paul Ekaitz doesn’t only speak about the space but also about the meaning this has to him when he finds himself within its limits: a place of transit and communication for the development of memories built over the base of diversity. Except for only one significant detail: none of them has either doors or windows.
Considering that one of the ways to know yourself is through comprehending the place where you are, a place without furniture and wide open, it points to the character of who’s representing it. Without prejudices. Under any of its angles. Searching for the light that its occupants sometimes offer.
