Feb.2024
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In “Reflejos Ocultos,” Hippo invites you into a dialogue between flesh and framework, where every print becomes a portal to hidden symmetries. Towering lattice structures—think cast-iron gasometers and industrial girders—serve as both backdrop and mirror, refracting the dancer’s body into abstracted shards of light and shadow. You’ll see torsos arching into negative space, arms reaching skyward in perfect sync with the geometry overhead, each frame teasing out the emotional reverberations that lie just beneath skin and steel.
Hung in a serene, white-walled gallery, these large-format photographs pulse with quiet intensity. The absence of color sharpens our focus on form: the sinew of a back in mid-extension, the tensile tension of fingertips grazing metal, the interplay of dusk-soft sky and ebony silhouette. Through “Reflejos Ocultos,” Hippo reveals not just the surface beauty of dance but the unseen reflections it casts—echoes of strength, vulnerability, and the sculptural poetry found at the intersection of human motion and architectural line.

Each photograph in “Reflejos Ocultos” is deliberately sequenced to guide you through an almost choreographed journey: from tightly cropped studies of muscle and bone to expansive compositions where the dancer’s silhouette dissolves into the sky. As you move along the gallery walls, the shifting perspectives—some shots taken from below, others head-on—encourage a performative dialogue between viewer and image. The cool, ambient lighting in the space echoes the industrial settings of the shoots, while subtle shifts in wall color underscore the emotional arc of each series. By inviting visitors to change their vantage point—lean in close, step back for the full vista—Hippo transforms the act of looking into its own kind of dance, where every pause and turn reveals a new reflection hidden within the interplay of body and structure.
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