OPENING 3 / 9 / 2025, AT 12 NOON
“The Roman Vicus of Baños de la Reina”
The Baños de la Reina archaeological site is located on the coast, between the town center of Calpe and its port, at the foot of the Peñón de Ifach rock.
In Roman times, it covered an area of over 5,000 m2 and was legally a vicus, a small enclave without urban status in the territory of the “municipium of Dianium,” on which it depended.
At the beginning of the 1st century AD, Dianium administered a fertile coastal territory, rich in agriculture and fishing resources, which was exploited by a scattered population.
At the end of the 1st century, the first dwelling was built in Baños de la Reina, which was later equipped with baths. New residential areas with service areas were established around it, as well as ponds on the coast for the consumption of fresh fish, known as “baños de la reina mora” (baths of the Moorish queen), which gave the place its name.
INAUGURATION 27 / JUNE / 2025, AT 12:00 NOON
OPENING 08 / JULY / 2025 AT 10:30 AM.
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OPENING 2 AUGUST 2025 AT 7 PM
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OPENING 8/5/2025 AT 12:00 NOON
FRAX FOUNDATION project "DISCOVER OUR ARTISTS"
APERTURA 4 DE JULIO DE 2025 A LAS 19:30
OPENING 2 JUNE 2024 AT 7:30 PM
‘Mangata’ is a word of Swedish origin with no translation into Spanish that means the path of light that is formed by the reflection of the moon on the water.
Discovering this symbolic association, the poetry it entails and the magical light forming a path in the darkness with multiple interpretations, gives me the opportunity to work on this very suggestive and beautiful concept. This is the starting point for a photographic project that begins in 2019 and will hopefully culminate in a book in 2025.
I went out into nature to look for symbolic, metaphorical relationships, where the branches of a dry tree are transformed into the wings of a crow or the waves of the sea become clouds, giving a nod to time.
I like to play with similarities, to transform branches, clouds, plants, animals... and give them a double meaning, just as moonlight is transformed into a path. I don't know where I read ‘that only the footprint makes one dream’ and it is one of the phrases that accompany me when I look for images that mark that interpretive space.
The clue suggests a trace, a trail that is discovered and takes us into a space open to the imagination. Nature seems to me to be a deep space, a place of connection between beings that relate to each other and where the interplay of life and death appears in every supposed trace. The photographs I propose are diptychs, juxtaposing two images, one next to the other. My intention is to show one thing in order to express or signify another. The visual game that we are invited to play encourages us to see, but above all to imagine. Reality dissolves and is enveloped in an aura of mystery.
The visible world is revealed through interpretative codes where the imagination makes its way and, in each case, marks its own meaning. Each observer will seek their own meaning and interpretation of what underlies the created simile.
