Ereignishorizont by Alexander Palacios is a photographic meditation on form, shadow, and the gravitational pull of the human condition. A solitary body curls into darkness, lit only by a soft crescent of light. It does not pose it withdraws, as if folding time into flesh.
At first glance, the image appears sculptural, echoing the chiaroscuro of Renaissance masters. But beneath its formal beauty lies a deeper cosmic metaphor: the body, in this posture, seems to shape its own event horizon that threshold beyond which nothing can return. Like a black hole drawing light inward, the figure creates a space where perception collapses into emotion. We are not just looking we are being pulled in.
Palacios uses darkness not as absence, but as density. The shadows carry weight. They are a field of quiet energy where the body becomes both center and circumference both subject and boundary. The image speaks to vulnerability, to the moment just before dissolution or transformation. It is the pause at the edge of becoming.
 
Size 180x180cm Edition of 2.
Material on request.
 
Created 2021
 
Signed
Alexander Palacios