Eduardo Lalo

Eduardo Lalo is a Puerto Rican writer and visual artist known for a body of work that moves between literature, visual art, and cultural criticism. He is a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Puerto Rico and a researcher at the Institute of Caribbean Studies. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Simone, winner of the 2013 Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize, as well as essays and photo-essays such as Los pies de San Juan, El deseo del lápiz, and Lo roto, lo mentido, lo abandonado. His visual work has been exhibited internationally in institutions such as CELARG (Venezuela), Fundación Cortés (Puerto Rico), the Benson Library at the University of Texas–Austin, and Point of Contact Gallery at Syracuse University (USA), where his piece Árboles (2015) is part of the permanent collection.

Photographing, as a kinesthetic art, is a physical and swift act that seeks to dissolve the self and immerse the artist in the intensity of the present moment. Through spontaneous framing and the full range of visual signs, including the writing of light— it becomes a profoundly human expression.