Pantocrator Gallery presents: “Matter-time-light” an exhibition featuring Gonzalo Reyes Araos. "Matter-time-light" is a research project that took place during an artist residency at Pantocrátor gallery in Shanghai, in October and November 2012. As an “intimate picture philology”, this research addresses some questions related to the symbolic content of the picture production, and examines the link between its technical process and its presentation and development support.

The difference of inductive and deductive creative processes is for me a real source of inspiration. In the first case, the work and its emotional content contribute to shape the creation process. In the second, the work is defined by the conceptual process that takes place before the implementation. These processes led me to confront and to explore the sublimation of technical production supports of contemporary creation.

Questioning the methods of execution and production of the picture takes, therefore, a metaphysical value in the act of constructing the picture. The discipline, as well as its active components, can therefore be considered as a tool supporting a spiritual dimension.

The approach adopted is a formal confrontation that submits to the production of an image of a specific discipline and image production techniques from other disciplines. This creates hybrids that stimulate new forms of symbiosis. The work comes from an exploration of the movement of « push generator » between different processes.