Beatriz Polo Iañez

BEATRIZ POLO IAÑEZ
"The search 1".
Digital photography.
Inkjet print on FineArt Photo Rag paper.
Edition 1/5.
With certificate of authenticity of the work, numbered.
Measurements: 90 x 60 cm.

Member of the Royal Photographic Society, Beatriz Polo Iañez has a Master in Theories and Artistic Projects by PhotoEspaña and a Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Granada. Her work has been recognized in international photography festivals and exhibitions. In 2024, she was a finalist in the Encuentros Fotográficos de Gijón and presented her work at the Festival de las Ideas in Madrid. In 2023, he exhibited Arxipèlag at the Menorca Doc Fest and participated in Diálogos Emergentes at Fotoqueretano, Mexico.

Throughout his career, he has exhibited in spaces such as JustMad Art Fair with Antítesis (2022) and Club Diario de Ibiza with Tres a l'India. In 2021, he was part of White Balance at Est_Art Space and won first prize at the VII Certamen d'Arts Plàstiques Ciutat de Felanitx. In 2019, his solo exhibition L'illa was presented at the Casa de Cultura de Felanitx, and his projects Los que van y vienen and L'illa were selected for the Fotolimo Festival in France and the Cortona On The Move Festival in Italy.

His international career includes participation in Mata Ombres (India, 2018), Arcipelagu by Raphael Vella (Malta) and the Mia Photo Fair (Milan). In 2017, he won the XXXIX Certamen d'Arts Plàstiques i Visuals Vila Binissalem with Arxipèlag. His project L'illa was selected for the Illes d'Art residency and exhibited at the Real Sociedad Fotográfica de Madrid (2017). Previously, he presented his work at the Hamburg Photography Triennial (2015) and participated in PhotoEspaña's Photobook Week. In addition, he contributed to the project Archivo intervenido. Ciudad tomada, exhibited at the Festival de Arte Contemporáneo de Saltillo, Mexico.

About his series "The Search": The mystical ecstasy or enlightenment understood as the form of expansion of consciousness in which it is integrated into the whole, appears in some religions as an experience difficult to reach and explain. In it, man feels the presence of the divine in his being, reaching a superior and profound state.

Apart from religion, Michael Hulin described another type of spontaneous mystical experience called wild mysticism where a spiritual communion with nature and a dissolution of the self are established, experiences that are born in a sudden and spontaneous way. The adjective wild is used here to refer to everything that has grown without being cultivated, tamed, controlled or dominated.

The quest addresses the disappearance of the ego through a link with the superhuman or the universe, through its interaction with nature and the silence created by their union. The inner noise fades away giving way to a deep calm where the sea and the light become its inciters.