PAISAJE VELADO
ALIOSHA MARQUEZ ALVEAR
Since its founding in 2011, Fotogaleríarcos has been an essential platform, promoting the work of Chilean and international photographers. Our mission is clear: to transcend mere subject matter and showcase unique visions that challenge, interpret, and enrich our understanding of each artist's personal world.
Every year, one event takes center stage on our calendar: "Emerging Artists." This is our annual showcase where we present a selection of the most outstanding talents, drawn directly from our classrooms.
These young creators, guided by their professors, offer us a raw and sensitive immersion into the pulse of the contemporary world. Their works not only reflect their surroundings but also act as mirrors of their most intimate realities. What unites them is the relentless pursuit of authorship, transforming each project into a personal and distinctive statement.
We live in an era of profound complexity. In this context, the creations of these students go beyond purely aesthetic considerations; They are a vital tool that can help us interpret and understand this new era. They are the protagonists who, through the lens, are building narratives for tomorrow.
EXPOSICIÓN ACTUAL
octubre - noviembre 2026
PAISAJE VELADO
ALIOSHA MARQUEZ ALVEAR
Lo oculto pero presente 2003-2026
El paisaje no se muestra plenamente. Una obstrucción —niebla, reflejos, desenfoque, subexposición, ruido digital, distancia— impide ver del todo. No es un paisaje ausente, sino un paisaje velado: lo oculto permanece. Quizá sea un paisaje interior: un paisaje que ya no puede ser inocente, pero que tampoco se entrega al discurso explícito.
No se trata de paisajes de lo sublime romántico ni de un inventario territorial. Paisaje Velado se afirma en otra dirección: resistir la transparencia documental. Velar es cubrir, pero también cuidar. Velar es acompañar en la noche, hacer duelo. Y aquí se velan un territorio, un tiempo y una forma de mirar.
La exposición reúne 36 fotografías realizadas a lo largo de más de dos décadas, entre 2003 y 2026. No las une un lugar único, sino una atmósfera y un estado de percepción. El paisaje no es el tema: es el síntoma recurrente de una mirada que vuelve. Hay también una memoria del propio acto fotográfico: el paso del tiempo afecta a quien mira y fotografía, al entorno y al territorio.
El recorrido se organiza en series de imágenes de una atmósfera común. La fotografía en soporte digital, cuando aparece, promete transparencia, inmediatez; sin embargo, aquí se usa para opacar, sugerir, demorar. La imagen no busca probar el mundo, sino rodearlo, esperarlo, dejarlo aparecer a medias.
Paisaje Velado puede leerse como una exposición de duelo luminoso: veintitrés años de mirar un mundo que se sustrae a través de un medio que a menudo promete transparencia, pero que se emplea para opacar, sugerir, demorar.
The landscape does not fully reveal itself. An obstruction—fog, reflections, blur, underexposure, digital noise, distance—prevents a complete view. It is not an absent landscape, but a veiled one: what is hidden remains. Perhaps it is an interior landscape: one that can no longer be innocent, yet does not surrender to explicit discourse.
These are neither landscapes of the Romantic sublime nor a territorial inventory. *Paisaje Velado* (Veiled Landscape) asserts itself in a different direction: resisting documentary transparency. To veil is to cover, but also to care for. To veil is to keep watch through the night, to mourn. Here, a territory, a time, and a way of seeing are all being veiled.
The exhibition brings together 36 photographs taken over more than two decades, between 2003 and 2026. They are united not by a single location, but by an atmosphere and a state of perception. The landscape is not the subject; it is the recurring symptom of a returning gaze. There is also a memory of the photographic act itself: the passage of time affects the observer and photographer, the surroundings, and the territory.
The exhibition is organized into series of images sharing a common atmosphere. Digital photography, when it appears, promises transparency and immediacy; here, however, it is used to obscure, suggest, and delay. The image does not seek to prove the world, but rather to circle it, wait for it, and allow it to appear only partially.
*Paisaje Velado* can be read as an exhibition of luminous mourning: twenty-three years of gazing at a world that withdraws, viewed through a medium that often promises transparency but is employed to obscure, suggest, and delay.