Stillness as an existential exercise
One of the most sublime scenes of Andrei Tarkovskyâ??s film â??The Mirrorâ?? presents us a woman waiting for her husband. Itâ??s said that during the shooting the actress didnâ??t know the ending of the scene, she had to wait, only wait. The director didnâ??t tell her if her husband, absent for a long time, was going to appear at any moment or not. The actress, Margarita Terekhova, presents us a hair-raising interpretation, leaning on a fence, in front of an open field, she projects her waiting in an absolute way. She has no expectations. Her waiting exceeds its temporal dimension. Nor she, nor the spectators have any reference about when the waiting started or when itâ??s going to finish.
In the pure act of waiting, accidental aspects as who or what is being waited for, till when or since when it is going to be waited for, donâ??t matter at all. This act takes part of a paradoxical loneliness. She is alone, but itâ??s not a heart-rending loneliness; itâ??s the loneliness of the one who waits for something to come.
Isabel Tallos, born in Madrid in 1983, where she lives and works at the moment. She graduated in Fine Arts at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2006. In 2008 she received a Roberto Villagraz scholarship to study a Master in Creative Photography at EFTI School.
Her work has been exhibited in numerous exhibition halls, museums and galleries in Spain, like IVAM Museum, Contemporary Art Museum of Madrid, San Clemente Museum, Ines Barrenechea Gallery, among others.
Her work has also been exhibited internationally at Ciulionis Museum in Kaunas (Lithuania), at 100Kubik Gallery in Cologne, Cervantes Institute in Berlin (Germany), Lima Spanish Cultural Center (Peru), Forte Marguera exhibition Hall in Venice (Italy), ...
Her work, mostly photographic, is a constant reserch about the relationship between the human body and the space around him.
