Photoimagen 2024: Diario de Amores en Puerta Amarilla
For the second time, the LiLeón Foundation takes part in the prestigious Photoimagen event, under the theme of Objective/Subjective.
September 7, 2024. Diario de Amores by Dominican visual artist Mariojosé Ángeles was inaugurated at Puerta Amarilla in an event where a large audience enjoyed the exhibition proposal, consisting of photographs and videos. The exhibition was open to the public at Puerta Amarilla, the exhibition space of the LiLeón Foundation, until October 5, 2024.
Diario de Amores, according to Mariojosé, is “an exercise, a practice of expressing love, feelings, and affections from our daily lives, focusing on the simplest and most common flowers in our urban environment, many of which we overlook.”
Additionally, the artist highlights that the exhibition is a product of spontaneity, generated over 45 days of interaction and participation from friends, acquaintances, contacts, family, and the general public through social media.
The creative process unfolded naturally, with the artist conducting a photo session of the chosen flower, considering technical details and photographic rules to emphasize its details and, most importantly, its beauty. Every morning — between 4:00 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. — he shared his artwork on social media, where the audience’s participation and interaction marked the primary objective of the exercise, allowing for spontaneous expressions of love, affection, care, and admiration with the flower of the day as the sole protagonist.
The artist expressed that while social media and digital platforms enhance connection, expressions of love, affection, and care have become ephemeral. The lack of warmth has led us to fulfill our basic existential priorities, forgetting the most important: love, affection, and care among ourselves and with others.
The exhibition hall at Puerta Amarilla hosted a display filled with color, light, life, and emotions, where visitors enjoyed the proposal consisting of 4 large-format digital art photography images and 7 small-format digital art photographs. Additionally, there were projections of 4 video art pieces, 3 animations, and one monitor, blending beauty and movement to immerse the viewer in Mariojosé’s creative process.
About Photoimagen
Photoimagen, an initiative of the Fundación Imagen 83, serves as a platform for the production, dissemination, promotion, analysis, and research of photography and video creation nationally and internationally in the Dominican Republic. This 11th edition focuses on capturing the pulse of still and moving images within the context of the Insular Caribbean.
About the LiLeón Foundation
The LiLeón Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in the Dominican Republic. Its mission is to foster the relationship between citizens and their environment through artistic projects that encourage creativity, collectivity, and a sense of community. Since its inception in 2019, it has established a significant local and international presence, such as its presentation of CONEXIÓN — from May to November 2021 — where it represented the Dominican Republic at the 17th International Architecture Biennale of Venice at the St. George Anglican Church in Venice, under the direction of its president and artist LiLeón.
