From My Exhibition "Without Context"

I was honored to have an exhibition of my work here in Madrid in December 2019, titled "Without Context"

Without Context is an exhibition about expectation. We give an image our attention, we expect answers for our gaze. Advertisers and algorithms have perfected this form of commerce—call it “content”, and the more satisfying the answers, the more satiated yet addicted we become. I prefer questions instead of answers. I prefer feelings instead of responses, and I prefer “hmmm” instead of “ahah!”

Images start a conversation, but you have to see the shapes and follow the lines and YOU have to ask the questions. There are no answers, only humans, physicality, emotion, and shape. We are the context, not the image.

We’re taught that a true portrait captures someone’s soul or tells the truth…But I think a good portrait asks a good question and reveals a part of ourselves.

The exhibition had 4 parts:
CMY, K, Color Portraits and BW Portraits.⁠ On⁠ly CMY & K are shown here,

“That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.” 

-Haruki Murakami

-Aaron (Madrid, 2019)