Los Muros de Chile

Just like a poem, paintings in this exhibition are visual metaphors that, through the beauty of the symbol, get us closer to a place at this side of the wall, closer to a place that we cannot see, or that we don’t want to see. Prison is a distant reality in the imagination of so many of us; a hidden place that remains feared. In the exhibition LOS MUROS de CHILE by German artist Louis von Adelsheim we get somewhere closer, making the prison walls transparent, and turning inside out the darkest side, a space confined in itself where our deepest fears breath. Looking inside the prison we see our inner self, interrogating us.

To this end, the artist –together with the poet Andrea Brandes– worked for three years to capture the scenes of a strange and dangerous world. These images inhabit now the museum as monumental paintings in motion. It is an oppressive world, where men and women end up as a result of previous emotional or material misery, and that, in turn, leave a trail; a story of pain in the lives of others. Their partners, their children, and above all, their victims, continue to pay the collateral damage of an discriminatory and ungenerous society. These are real images that transcend the documentary language, to place the viewer on the threshold of another world. These images multiply, mirror or merge into each other, telling stories and delving into the imagination of someone who lives in prison. They follow a rhythm that recalls the time stopped in prison. For the viewer, it is a minute to stop and look, weighing what these scenes of that incomprehensible world may awake within him.