LE MASK

New airs

“Somos Le Mask un pequeño grupo de arte especializado en la fotografía pero también en la ilustración, el cine y la pintura. Desde la infancia nos gustó hablar poco y observar mucho. Nos gustaría pensar que en nuestro trabajo existe algún tipo de conexión entre pintura y fotografía. Tratamos de plasmar la relación que hay entre nuestros propios pensamientos y las imágenes que estos nos sugieren”. Aida Hebles Sánchez and Noelia Secaduras Sánchez are Le Mask, an artistic group in photography, illustration, cinema and painting. Le Mask is open to any artistic creation. Now they present two of their current works: Respira (2011), a short film, and the photographic exhibition Identitat (2011), now exposed in Barcelona but soon at the Florida’s Steinhausen Gallery. First, there’s a sample of it in our exhibitions section Esbós.

Identitat (2011) goes into the created image, the one we perceive and the one we feel as our own, always in the permanent doubting land. We are in front of a compilation of portraits in black and white but also in colour in which physical and psychic masks are obstacles but also a seduction game good for deceiving everybody, including ourselves. They explore personal feelings with an exquisite tenderness in photos like Així ets tu and Vull pau, or with a powerful energy and determination in Ara o mai and Progrès. Seduction, the everlasting back light between the things we want to show and the ones the others see or want to, its showed in a mysterious way in Ulls de color de mel. It’s a work full of Voluntat in order to achieve a Estona de cel but always a beautiful journey to the light and at the same time dark inner beauty.

Respira (2011) is a short film directed by Aida Hebles Sánchez which has been selected by the Festival DO Films Cambrils-Reus and the Festival REC de Tarragona in their current 2011 editions.“Después de un accidente de tráfico Claudia despierta perdida en ese mundo entre la vida y la muerte. Allí querrá ver la imagen de su madre y su búsqueda la conducirá por un camino de incertidumbre y desesperación hasta llegar a la propia verdad”. It’s a complementary work to their photographic project, the search of the own identity. It’s a really distressing film in which the main character’s asphyxia is immediately transferred to the audience who feel a terrible sense of unease as a result of their identification with the questions and feelings created by the film. It’s an excellent film that makes our cinematographic lungs breathe new airs. 

Text by Juan Carlos Romero

Photos by Le Mask

Video from the film Respira directed by Aida Hebles Sánchez