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Txema Yeste, Losing the fear, 2021.

Txema Yeste Spanish, b. 2/5/1972

Losing the fear, 2021.
Archival Pigment Print.
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20 × 24 in / 50 × 60 cm
Edition of 5

30 × 40 in / 76 × 101 cm
Edition of 5

40 x 60 in / 101 x 152 cm
Edition of 3
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Hand-signed by artist, mounted, titled, editioned and print date in ink label affixed to mount verso.
A body suspended between sky and earth, caught in the fleeting geometry of a fall. In Losing the fear, Txema Yeste transforms an instant of surrender into something monumental —...
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A body suspended between sky and earth, caught in the fleeting geometry of a fall.


In Losing the fear, Txema Yeste transforms an instant of surrender into something monumental — a figure wrapped in tangled tendrils that seem to grow from the body itself, as though letting go had released an inner architecture previously held in check.


Against a sky shifting from deep teal to a molten coral band at the horizon, the silhouetted form hovers in a state that is neither ascent nor descent, but pure suspension.


The image carries the signature tension of Yeste's work: a collision of elegance and raw physicality, of control and abandon. The figure's posture evokes classical dance and the violence of free fall simultaneously.


Arms extended, back arched, feet reaching upward as if pulling away from gravity rather than submitting to it. The filaments enveloping the body refuse easy interpretation — are they constraints being shed, or new extensions of the self unfurling in mid-air? That ambiguity is the photograph's emotional core.


Yeste, whose career began in photojournalism before migrating into the surreal territories of fashion and fine art, has always been drawn to the body as a vessel of transformation.


The palette is reduced to silhouette and sky. The drama is entirely sculptural, governed by the arc of a spine and the chaos of line. It feels both ancient and instantaneous, as if it could depict Icarus mid-plunge or a dancer in flight.


What resonates most deeply is the title's quiet command. Losing the fear is not about fearlessness — it is about release, the trembling moment when the body chooses air over solid ground. Yeste captures precisely that threshold, and makes the ephemeral feel eternal.

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