24 icones per segon

In the two chapels, Martí Cormand presented 24 icones per segon (24 icons per second). It is the ideal image of Man, that evokes Da Vinci's Uomo Vitruviario, subjected to an unsettling process of metamorphosis towards an animal morphology. The installation is transformed into a succession of circles that enclose three moments, or frames, of this process of transformation, that present themselves as testimony to the revelation of an interior reality, or as a transmutation on the dark side of the soul. The space, with the walls painted black, allows the three white circles that enclose the images to appear. The blue light that 'dyes' the atmosphere provoked the optical illusion of clearly seeing some floating circles or even some round holes that opened the wall to a virtual space where the representation was suspended in a three-dimensional space. Cormand reminds us that the surface of the painting is a concave space, penetrable and passable. Here, a few strange animated shapes, in psychological charcoal black and white, seemed to grieve in body and spirit for this transforming process. In the adjoining chapel, now with the white walls, one sole proto-organic image watches us from the end of the space, embodying the value of the perverse and ambiguous icon.

Luisa Ortínez