A shot in the eye is a project part of a traumatic experience, a severe ocular disease that kept the artist Eduard Arbós away from the world for almost two years, fighting against losing his right eye permanently. 

A project centered on image and its construction, that analyses and questions the mechanisms of perception and representation.

From a report, a sort of chronicle from this period, written in a concise movie script way, a project structured through a series of proposals around writing and drawing came to be, with clear references to painting and cinema, including styles such as Op Art.

Thus, writing and drawing become a way of «re-seguir» [re-following] the process, of memorizing the tough experience, working at the same time as a catharsis, a liberating path. Now, drawing is resisting. And both drawing and writing, find themselves connected here, seeing as graphite and paper are the symbolizing elements of the union between text and image. On the other hand, graphite has an optical characteristic meaning that, depending on light incidence, a matte deep black of sorts, or a shiny silver ash-gray can be seen, making it more difficult to look at the works properly, showing in this way the hatching itself, i.e. the multiple strokes that make up the drawing. They are the traces of the act, of the action that constructs an image. The hatching, the apparently invisible element that sustains and shapes the entire act of «re-presentação» [re-presentation], is used here as an optical game between the visible and invisible, that questions perception and the representation of reality and, along with it, the very construction of image itself.

Eduard Arbós