EXHIBITION “THROUGH SILENCE” MIQUEL SOLER – RED

At the end of summer 2016, Miguel Soler-Roig traveled to one of the most inaccessible regions of Tibet to hear the first words of a Lama who maintained a vow of silence for three years. In Eastern culture they are much more aware of the need to practice the inner gaze.. Silence allows us to quiet the mind and discover the essence that makes us up..

The artist accompanied the Lama on his daily wanderings, sharing a spiritual life manifest in every small action and in the way of relating to the world. Through various photographs he shows us his daily occupations – prayers., mantra repetition, meditations, visits to the temple – and its immediate surroundings the mysticism of the Dzogchen landscapes in the ancient Kingdom of Kham, the humility and commitment of its people and the idiosyncrasy of a culture linked to the merely transcendental. The images express this philosophy through veiled symbols and visual metaphors.. Stillness and darkness refer to silence, light and movement when waking up, the path to the course of learning…

The keys present in the photographs culminate in an enveloping and overwhelming way in the videographic work.. A screen of smoke gives way to the chants of the Lama intoning the first words of a mantra. The transition from darkness to light, is equated with the experimentation of one of the Bardos or “intermediate states”: el primero o Chikhai Bardo. This phase is what happens at the moment of death, when consciousness withdraws from the senses; one no longer hears or sees anything, everything becomes blurry until it fades. The video shows the continuous cycle that originates and extinguishes at this point, going through a whole process of teachings and learning in which the Lama enters into communion with nature., involving the viewer. The parchment that accompanies it constitutes his first testimony after having been purified in the doctrine of silence.. The spontaneity and freshness of your most immediate inspiration captured on paper. Miguel Soler-Roig proposes an experience of introversion to feel peace and immerse yourself in the deep mysticism of the entire photographic series.