CARLOS LIMAS (McAllen, TX)
Intangible
FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2023 Online Gallery 

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Limas received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Graphic Design from the Instituto Profesional de Arte y Diseño, Monterrey, México, and a BA in Studio Art from l’Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, Belgium. He completed a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), Edinburg, TX. He participated in a conceptual art residency at the Accademia di Brera in Milan, Italy with artists Luciano Fabro and Diego Esposito. Limas is fluent in Spanish, English, and French, and has lived in Mexico, Brussels, and the USA. His primary media are photography, painting, and video. He has exhibited in solo and group art exhibitions at regional, national, and international levels, including México, Belgium, Slovakia, Italy, France, China, Bolivia, and the USA.

He presented his 2021 solo show, Stillness, at the International Museum of Arts & Science, McAllen, TX, and Intangible in 2023 at Rusteberg Gallery, UTRGV, Brownsville, TX. He served as Chair of the School of Art Escuela Adolfo Prieto at CONARTE from 2006 to 2011 in Monterrey, México, creating multiple projects for the artistic community including art workshops, artists’ talks, and a local TV show. Limas teaches digital and analog photography at UTRGV and South Texas College and is the Program Coordinator for the UTRGV Center for Latin American Arts, covering events in México, South America, and the USA.

Intangible (spelled the same in English and Spanish) is a collection of digitally manipulated images of people and places, displaying patterns of lines that extend in different directions, transcending beyond the constraints of the picture frame. Several color palettes are represented, ranging from vivid and saturated colors to more neutral, almost monochromatic tones.

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I’ve been driving through the Rio Grande Valley’s back roads since I returned from Monterrey, México, in 2013, without knowing what I was looking for. Years passed, and I soon discovered that the more you look, the less you find. I was trying too hard, so I needed to take a step back and simply contemplate what was in front of me. At that point, I began paying more and more attention to the invisible landscape; abandoned homes and old structures on the side of the road started to emerge. This single revelation made a very strong connection to my past and present. I understood how complex the paradox of time can be.

The Future and the Past are Intangible; one is not here yet, and the other is forever gone a constant and perpetual transition. We only exist in the Here and the Now, and we’re continually slipping away through time, extending toward infinity or oblivion. The only actual evidence that we were ever here is a single photograph, and even that will soon fade away.

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