FUGAS
José Luis Santalla
 Untitled2005 / 50 x 50 cm. / 10 + II A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper, Glicee. Inkjet. Ultrachrom K3ink |  Untitled2004 / 150 x 200 cm. / 3 + I A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |  UntitledUntitled / 2002 / 125 x 147 cm. / 3 + I A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |
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 Untitled2002 / 125 x 147 cm. / 3 + I A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |  Untitled2002 / 147 x 125 cm. / 3 + I A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |  Untitled2002 / 147 x 125 cm. / 3 + I A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |
 Untitled2002 / 147 x 125 cm. / 3 + I A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |  Untitled2002 / 125 x 147 cm. / 3 + I A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |  Untitled2002 / 125 x 147 cm. / 3 + I A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |
 Untitled2002 / 73 x 86 cm. / 7 + I A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |  Untitled2002 / 147 x 125 cm. / 3 + I A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |  Untitled2002 / 147 x 125 cm. / 3 + I A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |
 Untitled2002 / 86 x 73 cm. / 7 + I A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |  Untitled2002 / 147 x 125 cm. / 3 + I A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |  Untitled2002 / 147 x 125 cm. / 3 + I A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |
 Untitled2003 / 73 x 86 cm.. / 7 + I A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |  Untitled2003 / 73 x 86 cm.. / 7 + I A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |  Untitled2002 / 147 x 125 cm. / 3 + I A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |
 Untitled2002 / 147 x 125 cm. / 3 + I A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |  Untitled2003 / 86 x 73 cm. / 7 + I A.P./ Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |  Untitled2002 / 147 x 125 cm. / 3 + I A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |
 Untitled2003 / 86 x 73 cm. / 7 + I A.P./ Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |  Untitled2003 / 150 x 200 cm. / 3 + 1 A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |  Untitled2001 / 50 x 60 cm. /10 + II A.P. / B & W Photograph – Silver Gelatin Print |
 Untitled2004 / 43 x 53 cm. / 10 + II A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |  Untitled2004 / 100 x 85 cm. / 35 + III A.P. / Colour Photograph – Kodak Endura Paper |  Vistas galería |
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"Leaks" Jose Luis Santalla
This new exhibition ends in Madrid after having been exhibited, among other places, at the Revillagigedo Palace in Gijón within the 51st International Photography Salon, and on the occasion of the Fotoencuentros'05 Festival at the Municipal Center Gates of Castilla de Murcia.
José Luis Santalla, (Madrid, 1965) belongs to the generation that, beginning its career in the eighties, has used photography as a versatile and flexible tool, in an imaginative exploration of its narrative possibilities.
His series have followed one another as a search for limit possibilities (Manipulations) or in which duplication, since the introduction of the idea of the mirror, generates possible spaces for the imagination (Diptychs). Many of his images have tended to build allegories in which objects take on a different meaning and use, opting more for developing a discourse of stylistic fragmentation that would allow him narrative versatility from which to address specific issues, tensions, and contradictions (In Silence ).
Oscillating between the inert and the animated, and precisely from his latest series, A happy world y Fugas, his work acquires a denser thickness, linked to a meditation on values and models in contemporary society.
It is precisely in these two series where Santalla begins to reflect on absence. An absence that translates, en Fugas, into the flight of the character himself, who has disappeared. The characters have fled leaving their clothes like chrysalis that leave their carcass in a space that is a scene of their daily lives. They are reflections on the interior and the exterior, reflections, in short, on the world in which we live.