Special edition CAÍN

“Cain” is both a natural sequel and a necessary break from “Extraños” (2003).

While in the previous work, fear and obsessions sprang from within, in this one, they are imposed from outside. The biblical figure of Cain, the cursed firstborn, is taken up as a paradigm of original sin: the child condemned by his parents to a sacred narrative that positions him as the bearer of evil even before his actions.

This is Juan Manuel Castro Prieto's starting point for discussing how individuals are not simply vulnerable to their own fears, but are born with a social and moral burden they did not choose.

In this sense, the author's photographs become an act of deliberate concealment; more than a rational discourse, the logic of this project embraces the cryptic and the unresolved; the viewer is not called upon to understand, but to interpret according to the resonances that the images awaken in them.

For the troubled and unfathomable nature of Cain represents precisely that, which remains beyond the reach of full understanding.