This new exhibition by Javier Riera, his third at the Llamazares gallery, presents a tour of his recent production in recent years, which includes photographs and videos of his interventions on the landscape as well as an installation with light projection in the gallery space. In the exhibition we also find, for the first time, a sample of his works for public spaces in cities such as Paris, Prague and Durham.
The central element of the exhibition is a series of photographs of interventions on cliffs in places as distant as the south of Portugal or the east coast of Australia. In them, the light draws geometries on the rock, interacting at the same time with the waves and the humidity of the marine environment, giving rise to unusual images in which the light generates a volumetric and ethereal world.
The title of the exhibition refers to the paradox posed by the author of the Fractal theory, Benoît Mandelbrot, regarding the calculation of the perimeter of the coast of Great Britain.
In a famous article published in Science magazine in 1967, Mandelbrot analyzed the impossibility of geometrically measuring the English coast, whose perimeter was infinite if the calculation was done rigorously with traditional geometric measurements. Its solution modifies the traditional concept of dimension, giving rise to a new territory, that of fractality as a geometric explanation of the natural world.
