Mirades Aire: Contraforma, by Maria and Joan Diví

Air is what we never see and yet sustains us. It surrounds us, passes through us, gives us breath and movement. It is both absence and presence: it has no body, but it is the condition of all form. Without air there is no voice, no breath, no life.Its invisible nature only reveals itself when it comes into contact with what defines it — the movement it generates, the void it fills, the lightness it sustains. Air is the counterform of existence: the silent part that makes noise possible, the silence that accompanies every gesture, the intangible matter that shapes what is tangible.In our daily lives, we often forget that we live immersed in it, like fish in water. But air is the first and the last thing we touch: the first cry and the last sigh. Between these two moments, air is a constant and discreet companion, a space of freedom and a reminder of fragility.

The exhibition Mirades Aire: Contraforma, featuring photographs by Maria and Joan Diví Figueras (Girona) —the third in the Mirades cycle promoted by the Girona branch of the COAC—, seeks to be an exercise in looking at the invisible, an invitation to recognize the beauty of what cannot be captured. Because life, like air, only becomes visible when it moves, when it transforms us and leaves a fleeting imprint in time.