This year's Lumínic Festival explores poetics as an essential dimension of all artistic language. Photography, with its multiple registers and layers of meaning, becomes the focus of a reflection on its capacity to suggest, move, and transform the gaze. 

 

If we understand poetry as a form of expression that uses language artistically, we can say that, in the artistic context, poetry can be understood as the aesthetic and expressive quality that transcends mere representation and connects directly with the viewer's emotion, sensitivity, and imagination. Poetics does not depend on the medium—be it painting, music, dance, or photography—but on the power of the work to suggest more than it shows, opening a space of experience that transcends its material form and invites a more open and sensitive perception. 

 

The poetic vision of the world in contemporary artistic photography is manifested through an aesthetic that seeks to transcend everyday reality and capture the essence of emotions, memories, and inner landscapes of human beings. This approach translates into diverse visual and conceptual strategies that explore the mystery, delicacy, and subjectivity of the human experience.

 

The great themes of humanity also permeate poetic photography, which addresses them through visual metaphors capable of evoking the passage of time, the relationship with nature and the universe, dreams and the unconscious, absence or memory, among other forms of shared experience.

 

Many authors, artists, and thinkers speak to us about the poetic power of the image and its ability to move us, the best known being Roland Barthes' concept of punctum, or the idea of ​​aura expressed by Walter Benjamin in his writings.

 

When we speak of photographic poetics, a universe of affinities and perspectives unfolds that have managed to transform the image into a space of suggestion and mystery. We think of Ferran Freixa, Txema Madoz, Laia Abril, Albarrán Cabrera, Mayte Vieta, Manel Esclusa and Toni Catany, among others, who have each explored, in their own way, photography's capacity to transform the visible into a poetic experience.