Photos: Sergio Betancort
Numerous public gathered this Thursday afternoon at the CIC El Almacén to attend the opening of the exhibition 'The Index Finger', the exhibition of the Lanzarote photographer Pepe Vera, which is exhibited in the cultural center that depends on the Cabildo de Lanzarote.
Among the attendees were the artist himself and numerous family members and friends, as well as students from the Pancho Lasso Art School, where Vera works as a photography teacher. Authorities such as the Minister of Culture of the island corporation, Alberto Aguiar, or the Minister of Commerce, Energy and Industry, Ariagona Gozález, also attended.
For people interested in learning more about 'The Index Finger' and Pepe Vera himself, this Friday, at 6:00 p.m., there will be a guided tour organized by Cultura Lanzarote. The visit is free, and will be guided by the historian and art curator Estefanía Camejo. In addition to the Pepe Vera exhibition, the tour includes the other exhibition that is exhibited at the CIC El Almacén, specifically in the El Aljibe room, which is 'Que nos zurzan' by Sandra March.
It can be visited until January 11
'The Index Finger' is exhibited in the El Cubo room of the CIC El Almacén and can be seen until January 11. This is the photographer's first individual exhibition in this space. According to Pepe Vera himself, "the idea for this exhibition comes from the book by Alberto Ruiz Sánchez, also titled 'The Index Finger', and his philosophy of sleepwalking. That idea of letting yourself go on trips - because in the end they are photos of trips and places I have been - and more than going to look for something, going to hunt for images, the idea is rather that you find them".
The index finger tries to testify "unique, fortuitous and unrepeatable encounters", as Pepe Betancort writes in the text of the brochure that accompanies the exhibition. "Lisbon, Porto, Berlin, Prague, Granada, Paris or London are part of the scenarios of this visual geography of images taken from his travels, in the form of moments captured forever. Unexpected and fleeting images, suspended in a non-time, while life continues inexorably. Pepe Vera's camera, through his index finger, tries to touch what we do not see, what is hidden and escapes at first sight, in an attempt to capture the fleetingness of a chance encounter or the surprising beauty of the invisible of that precise moment", adds the exhibitions coordinator of Cultura Lanzarote
The hours to visit the exhibitions at the CIC El Almacén are Monday to Friday, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
