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Gabriela García-Luna is an artist based in Canada and Mexico who has extensively traveled to India since 2000.

García-Luna photographically documents seen and “unseen” landscapes and works to index personal memory traces and bring ethereal qualities to her representation. Her new circular photographs, entitled Ponds, are assembled from photographic images collected in Kochi during a Kashi Artist Residency in October 2015.

García-Luna describes her new works as follows: "Images of rain trees, tropical vegetation of the Kochi region, and detailed images of faked paint from the walls of colonial buildings are the elements I combine to form layered, semi-abstract images. They operate where the lines of two different realities meet. As in my previous work, I address objective reality—of form and objects—as a departure point for the study of the subjective/subtle reality. I see the work of art as a vehicle to transit between the two. I work in a hybrid figurative and abstract form of photography that I have been developing in recent years. It is a process in which abstract forms result from selection, subtraction, and transformation of elements of my original photographic images. In an intuitive way, I concentrate

my attention on subtle information that carries a sense of the experiential rather than on the descriptive elements of the original photographs. I add other graphic elements to the images, such as abstract circular shapes surround-

ed by white space, which may suggest isolated universes, planets, microscopic views, or unfolding realities into which we may be immersed or transported.”

García-Luna’s work is represented by SLATE Fine Art Gallery, Regina, Canada.

See www.gabrielagarcialuna.com