Jordi Gual

Jordi Gual (Terrassa, Spain, 1964) 'My development has always been hampered by a serious case of dyslexia. This affected my studies and I ended up going from school to school, until finally I went to art school and was able to develop my mind by spending many long hours in the darkroom, staining my hands with brushes, studying the classics. I spent many years of my youth that way. I married and had three children, and one of them, Natalia, the eldest, was born blind, something which took me years to get over. Well, perhaps I will never get over it: it has marked me, that blurry vision of seeing and not being seen. Of protecting and being protected, like a net, which is thrown and then gathered…and that is all until today. More than a work, this is an exercise in the language of imagery, a vision, which is unspeakable, perhaps some kind of trapped emotion. Insecurity, loneliness, a mood, which is there but whose direction you cannot predict. Perhaps these are solitary tales of the absurd, the asphyxiating tension of something which surrounds us but which we can’t understand. Sometimes confusion frees us from chaos and places us at the beginning, where everything starts over again. Jordi, one recent spring night.'