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TWILIGHT. Twilight consists of the displacing of a floodlighting tower for a football pitch, a space that is hyperdefined by and for spectacle, whose descriptive lighting presents the subject of its attention as the only one that exists. This tower has been transferred to one of Europe?s last forests, Irati, in the north of Navarre, creating as a replica a redefinition of the real as visible employing the language proper to spectacle. The project is about the way in which the West constructs a circuit of the real through light. Natural lighting provides a consistent space-time dimension, while the West?s approach to light, in contrast, goes beyond the manufacture of an eternal day to rupture structures and cycles towards the construction of an abstract medium that loses all relations except in relation to itself. Fire as the first artifice and, later, artificial light have symbolised the place of transformation. Spectacle has inherited the place and hypnotic qualities of fire and has marked out the plane of the visible so that it can be digested, transferring attention towards a series of pseudo-events. Representation of place is now insufficient. The project poses this installation as the need for the real beyond its image. The last place is the place itself.

Carlos Irijalba. Biography Carlos Irijalba (Pamplona, 1979) graduated in 1998 from the Pamplona School of Art and went on to continue his training at the University of the Basque Country where he obtained his Fine Arts degree. He also studied in Berlin at the Universität der Kunst with artist and professor Lothar Baumgarten and actually has a studio residence at ISCP New York. In 2004 he received the First Award for Young Artists, as well as a photography grant from the Guggenheim, to which must be added a Plastic Arts Grant from the Fundacion Marcelino Botín in 2007 and the Purificacion Garcia Photography Award. Carlos has exhibited at national and international Centres, including the CCCB in Barcelona, Miami, New York,Tokyo and Beijing. In previous projects, such as ?Outside comes first? or ?Devices? (both in 2007) he had already worked on the distortion of the construction of reality in the West. So, with Twilight he continues to delve into our understanding of and approach to reality, and spectacle. He is currently developing a photograph and video project in Beijing entitled Dromocracia.