LO QUE PASA (FOLA, 2021)

In “Lo Que Pasa”, a pun meaning “what happens” and “what passes by” at the same time, Juan Hitters uses surfaces of constructions as a means to reach our most sensitive aspects. His quest is based on finding beauty in unlikely places. Hitters photographs spaces where nature reconquers its ground, blurring the division between the organic and the inorganic. In this way, he exposes the transience of existence.

The exhibition incorporates works from the Concrete and Rupestrian series, creating a contrast between monochromatic works and explosions of colour, concluding in a common pictorial discourse in a kind of unfinished abstract expressionism that mimics the character of its subjects. Hitters photographs on a large scale-one at a time-inviting us to inhabit a fragment of the captured reality. His aim is not to confuse or obscure the referent, but to create a particular and direct foreshortening, blurring the line between abstraction and the figurative.

Self-defined as an eternal wanderer, the photographer explores cities in a spiritual act, essential to his creative process. His peregrinations present him with scenes, findings of beauty and reflection ignored in the maelstrom of passers-by. Hitters enjoys finding these compositions that are the product of chance.

His record has a documentary character, where he allows himself to be carried away by the logic inherent in each of his findings. The buildings act as the reflection of living organisms, incorporating the marks of life, with its alterations and erosions. Through the lens, Hitters records how the passage of time generates a unique and unrepeatable history, immortalising memories that will remain unspoken. In these fragments he manages to record the multiple layers of our environment: what was, what is passing, what remains and what will never be again.

— Luz Hitters, Curator.