A NARROW VIEW

"Nonetheless, almost all of her photographs are charged with warm tones; a frequently impulsive sensuality with clearly romantic undercurrents that lead to her to propose drastic alternatives, vacillating between passion and cool distance. She insists on approaching her portraits in extreme closeups, but so close that the detail becomes blurred and perception modified. This effect leads us to compare her works with the portrait series "Reserves" by Boltanksi, or Barbara Essand and Cindy Sherman, María José Gómez Redondo shares a love for emotional settings, although Redondo opts for more internalized, less Theatrical formulas, and even for viewing some of her series thought dream-like eye.

It would be wise, however, to avoid the surrealist temptation of referring to the illusory. However, Redondo likes contrasts, superimpositions, and images that would make more than one surrealist feel at home. And although she does elongate forms and figures producing effects similar to the "meltings" so typical of the Breton group, she contrasts them against blue skies and filmy clouds, imposing an entirely different philosophy than the surrealist. Irony does not figure in Redondo's work. It is a much more transparent exercise where the evocation of memory and an instinctive sensuality seem almost to vibrate. Perhaps because she approached them from a view removed from time, a narrow reduction meant to restore mystery."

Miguel Fernández Cid