Laura Ortego expõe “Intemperie” na Galeria Sicart, em Barcelona, até 17 de Janeiro de 2009. Sobre a mostra de fotografia publica-se o texto de Gabriela Francone.

Laura Ortego was born in the Argentinean Patagonia, among expanded horizons and relentless winds. She lived in Comodoro Rivadavia until she was 18.

The infinite was looming a few minutes off the city center.

Whole and Nothingness were daily landscapes in her childhood. The attraction and the abyss of the limitless.

In her pictures we experience real and imagined landscapes. The record, the remembrance and the dream.

It is not the plain or the plateau of Comodoro which appears once and again in her series, but the forest. The ominous space of the infantile fable. The scene of estrangement and ritual.

A slight tremor shakes the calm surface of the photo, its tense beauty.

Something makes us uncomfortable, amazes us in the pictures of those girls.

What makes them feel sad?

What has been taken from them?

Laura Ortego´s destitute girls make us ask about the moment in which something starts the mechanism that darkens the children´s soul.

How will the awareness of pain present itself? And the awareness of the absurd? Will they take them by surprise in a dream, leaving them breathless, like a lash?

Will their souls burn for a moment? Will they make noise like silk paper when being crumpled?

Then, nothing will be the same.

How would our face look like in a picture that day? Would our small feet stagger?

How many times, as grown-ups, we become that scared child in the forest, visited again by forgotten ghosts? … Now that we know, the monster lies ahead of us.

We imagine that this girl dressed in white, surrounded by spectral trees, is watching the moon that dyes the quiet sky with shades…

"What does it matter?" seems to whisper in our ears, "Let´s play… while the wolf is away".

Gabriela Francone, 2008

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