LIFE IN SILENCE
Photographs of Donietta Romeas are gestures, lights, shadows, movements, colours, structures, ultimately, life in silence. I was struck by her sentence "une fois encore demain, moi et encore autre joins soi." So her search in photography may be better understood, capturing a spirit, a moment and its energy, as that story by Pere Calders in Cròniques de la veritat oculta in which someone took his life in a fist that would not open for fear of it escapes him forever. Life is here always but its different and ephemeral expressions have a space in Donietta Roméas sensitivity, being a refuge for all of us
Her exhibition entitled Émerveillement published in the present issue, is born of her admiration for the details of life sawn under different filters and approaches. She stops her camera in order to play with the image capture. She creates new movements in the movement itself and she blurs realities to recreate them enriching their spirit.
Eduardo Chillida said that as a point is the minimum unit of geometry having not yet a dimension, an instant is the minimum unit of time lacking dimension too. Thus, an instant cannot be measured and is, therefore, finite and infinite at the same time. This relativity of time is experienced strongly in Donietta Roméas photography where everything stops at the instant to multiply it in infinite realities depending on who’s looking at that portrait. Once captured, that instant innovatively flows in each of us.
The brightness of their colours is a sign of her passion for what she is portraying always knowing that is unique and irretrievable. She is aware that even trying to capture it with her camera she will never achieve it and the pain of that powerlessness gives tremendous strength to her photographs. Simply, un émerveillement.
Text by Juan Carlos Romero
Photo by Donietta Roméas