Intimate openings through prison walls.

• Author: Beramendi, Fernando
• Position: Illustration

Liberty has often been symbolized by open doors or windows. Painters, poets and musicians have used these images as openings on the path to understanding Man. Today, liberty has attained universal dimensions.

Overwhelmed by a consumer-oriented society and the loss of paradigms and dogmas, Man has turned inward. He ponders the essence of his free will, asking himself where he is going and what his limitations are. Windows and doors now acquire new meaning, taking on a greater corpulence.

The photographs of Uruguayan Oscar Bonilla vividly capture all of this. Where they were taken is inconsequential, since almost every corner of the globe has witnessed periods in which liberty has been stifled, detained behind bars, or trapped amidst stones and the disappearances and lamentations of a somber drama. Heavy metal bars and thick stone walls that barely permit light to pass through define the outline of a never-ending solitude. These evocative...