Afterimage: an aesthetic light. The process of exploration in the field of abstract painting

[EN] This work is presented as a process of pictorial exploration in the field of abstraction that takes as its initial starting point a visual reference: the residual images (afterimage) that we perceive as a result of retinal burns caused by ultraviolet light (photokeratitis). However, during the evolution and development of this process, the same pictorial exploration has been discovering and proposing new approaches, interests and objectives that focus not so much on the visual allusion to this type of images, but on the possibilities of development focused on the pictorial and the self-sufficiency or expressive autonomy of the language of pictorial abstraction. Thus, this processual development has been focusing, delimiting and incorporating some innovations in its conceptual framework, such as light and emptiness; in the plastic and formal plane, because although alternatives were explored both in the field of organic and geometric abstraction, it was in the latter where our interest was directed, betting on deepening the possibilities of pictorial development that it offered us; and in the use of colour because, as with the materiality of painting, we moved away from certain mimetic approaches to acquire a more plastic and autonomous dimension. To identify this work with a process presupposes our interest in the path and the methodology that has made it possible to manage it. A processual methodology that, focusing on self-questioning, introspection and dialogue with painting, has also been the key to a fundamental learning process.