The
"Labyrinth of Light", was the highlight
exhibition during ZoneZero's Tenth Anniversary Colloquium held
in Mexico City. The exhibition consisted of most of the 8000
images that are at present in ZoneZero, these were organized
according to some major topics such as: "All Wars",
"Urban Landscape", "Sex",
"Peace", "Our Diversity" and
in turn these were accompanied by music which were in synch
to the mood of the images as organized by our staff in ZoneZero.
The kaleidoscope of images that came into being was breathtaking,
as the combinations of images that emerged kept the viewers
enthralled for hours with a seldom repeating iterations of pictures.
The
viewers were faced with the experience of not only viewing the
images as one would on the computer screen, in the sense that
the materiality of the picture was not the main concern; but
that the viewers were walking within the pictures as if they
were bathed by these. In other words, one could walk among the
images themselves.
The exhibition was much like the experience we seem to have
with the images as we deal with them at our conscious levels
in the mind, or in our memories, as well as in our dreams. Pictures
are not neatly set up in our brain to be seen as in a Gallery
exhibition, but are a multi-layered and complex in their organization.
They come up from all directions, and they are not always relevant
directly one to the other.
Such was the experience that we tried to put together through
the exhibition of the Labyrinth of Light, that the pictures
that we show here give a good reference to this very exciting
presentation which seems to be the first of its kind. At least
the diversity of imagery, which took no less than ten years
to collect (hence our tenth anniversary), from over 700 photographers
from all around the world, assured us that something like this
was certainly unique. We thank the photographers, who made all
this possible.
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