Un pequeño movimiento entre las aguas

Inma Barrio's second self-published photobook 'Un pequeño movimiento entre las aguas' suggests a world full of metaphors where she combines abstract and figurative photographs so that each reader can make his/her own this new emotional journey that she proposes after her previous photobook 'La traslación de la sirena'.

Un pequeño movimiento entre las aguas' is a visual diary, where the least important thing is the temporal chronology, since the characters and spaces that appear in it are, to a great extent, metaphors of emotions and lived experiences that play to intermingle, being a space of shelter and reunion for the author.

Fragility was the concept on which the idea was born and gave rise to the growth of the project, becoming an emotional object full of photographs and games that invite each person to make it their own, thus making it their own experience.

The book is composed of foldouts and Singer sewn with black thread in a bag where you can read the text that Leire Etxazarra wrote for it. This text is to be found precisely in those bags, which function as "flashes of memory", apparently loose and unconnected phrases, which end up composing a suggestive poem open to interpretation. Barrio invites us to sit down, take pencil and paper and write this text by hand to live in a more immersive way with this small movement.

"There is something subtle
ephemeral delicate absolute
the force the unstoppable beauty
I close my eyes I see an image there trapped in my retina it moves it moves me
palpitate I breathe I grow
filling me drowning me
i am flower i was marble and now i am flower
I throb I breathe I grow
I open my eyes the light the memory an impulse I stand standing in the light
a small gesture lifts let's go lift
the movement the dance the rhythm the compass the water and the wind all in a whisper everything" - Interior text by Leire Etxazarra.

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