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The six photographs that compose this work register very specific moments: the undoubtedly fleeting moment when a reflection dazzles a person that walks carelessly on the street. The six people (including a policeman) react closing their eyes or covering their face with their hands. Everything around that bright spot is recognizable: the urban landscape and the passers-by near the protagonist. Is this reflection incidental? Was the artist right there at the moment when the light impacted on the people's faces? Everything leads us to think that it is the artist who is producing that reflection and pressing the shutter button at the same time. the people lit are undoubtedly anonymous characters, highlighted among the crowd by that reflection. Yet at the same time, that light prevents us from seeing their faces, not only because they try to cover their eyes with their hands, but also because the reflection produces an overexposure of the film, burning it right where the proof of the identity of the characters is. This game of affirmation and denial is the central element of this work, which is also reflected in the title through a simple rhyme: the lighting of the icon and its simultaneous hiding. First Itaú Cultural Visual Arts Award 2010-2011. Source: Itaú Cultural Visual Arts Award 2010-2011.

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