Disfrutar
in the Alhambra

Date: September 2008
Place: Alhambra Woods
The exhibition shows a selection of the best photographs about water taken by renowned photographers worldwide. Through this expositive discourse we can deepen in this fascinating and essential element in nature, discovering details that reveal its aesthetic value and its close relationship with man. The exhibition is divided into six sections –“The liquid condition”, “Water, essence, tasks and skills”, “the ages of water, the pen of time”, “The elixir of the everlasting youth”, “Forested water”, “Wounded waters” and “The fresh gift”- that describe the different shapes water can get, from its wildest state in nature to becoming the precious liquid sought for by man in many parts of the world.
Its author, Joaquin Araujo, offers a poetic homage to water as an essential element for life. Inspired on texts by authors of the universal literature like Goethe, Blanchot or Rene Char, he describes its immensity, explores its condition of natural resource, examines its main properties and reflects on the social, cultural and economic value water has had throughout man’s history.
Conscious of the fact that degradation rises from ignorance and that there is not worse draught than greed, this exhibition intends to be a source of social sensitisation and awareness rising about water.