Emmanuel Lafont: “Life in drawers”

The Yusto / Giner Gallery presents the individual exhibition of Emmanuel Lafont in its space in Marbella.

Life in drawers is the title of the exhibition with which Emmanuel Lafont presents her new work at the Yusto/Giner gallery, which will host the show from Friday, November 11th in Marbella.

The work of Lafont pushes us to rethink what we see when we read and what we read when we see. The Argentinian artist puts us in front of our own history, that which happens to us day after day, like little daily fictions. Yet in the new exhibition presented by Yusto/Giner, Lafont steps forward subtly to put us in front of his own story. “Life in drawers” is a tip toe approach to the secrets of the artist, but more specifically to an exact secret: in that moment, almost imperceptible, where the idea initiates a brush stroke. These allegorical transitions are what Lafont has wanted to show us, to bring out, so that we remember the silence that inhabits the places where we keep our things. In these drawers, the object is the image: they return from the murmurs guarded by those hiding places; from the corridors, the bathroom faucet, the kitchen, or the coat rack. There arise the small remains that are traces here. Again, the image.

*Fragment of the original text written by Ada Naval

Source: Galería Yusto/Giner