With works by: Lara Amat · Ricardo Guixà · Léa Habourdin · Gabriel Leger · Hanako Murakami · Joaquín Paredes 

Curated by Rebecca Mutell and Joan Fontcuberta

We are on the verge of commemorating two hundred years since the invention of photography. Its emergence not only introduced a new way of recording light and time, but also radically transformed our way of seeing and understanding the world.

This exhibition brings together contemporary artists who, though distant from the scientific sphere, appropriate tools of observation, measurement, and documentation to translate profoundly material visual poetics. Through their works, they reveal suspended or invisible phenomena-such as geological traces or solar imprints-that would otherwise remain hidden from perception.

By means of experimental methods, these artists reclaim a slowed-down photography in opposition to the vertiginous speed of the present. The title, Dark M[a]tter, alludes both to dark matter?that which exists without being seen?and to the camera obscura, precursor of the photographic device and ancient instrument of observation.

The exhibition invites us to reflect on what light renders visible and how time, when held, reshapes our way of seeing. Here, the image is not captured: it ignites, urging us to pause, to look, and to contemplate what is essential.