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Jesús León

“But beyond time and space is the empire of the Night,” the German poet Novalis wrote in his . The photography of Jesús León seems to be based on this poetic intuition. What transpires at night, plucked from time and space, radiates like a fiction, a myth: an ecstatic face, a moment of vulnerability, a truth that flickers briefly

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