For now, let us realize that all knowledge of the intimacy of things is immediately poetic.

— Gaston Bachelard

The breadth of the horizon extends, lengthens, intensifies; it is a porous line, a border between what was and what will be. For the artist the horizon is wide, infinite. Seeking to bring our sensibility closer to the amplitude of the impossible, the artist suggests that tracing a horizon is a poetic gesture that only exists in the extension of the imagination. For this sensitive subject to define the horizon is to go beyond sight, it is to transcend the gaze, it is an attempt to conceptualize and imagine the limits of the ethereal through the visual.

Gabriel Rodriguez's work conjures up questions while challenging us as viewers to perform the impossible gesture of embracing or possessing the intangible; the air, the horizon, the sun, a cloud. The horizon is always memory and is constantly regenerating itself in the present as an illusion, as a gesture of the imagination. Rodriguez himself tells us: "Memory is something that compels us immanently to remember. An event that surprises us and is immediately recorded without asking our rationnale if we want to consider it."

On a table we see a drawn trajectory, it is the memory of the present and the present in memory, it is a composition of gestures represented by the drawing; drawing by blowing, drawing by cutting, drawing by scraping, drawing by walking. Gabriel starts from reminiscence as a trigger for the metaphorical production of his work, he tells us: "But the remnants of this fondness for volcanoes remained; press clippings, some sheets, stones collected in ascents to the volcano and two boxes with volcanic ash from 1998".

For this artist the sun is no longer just a luminous star that brightens the day to day, but rather a brush of light that paints and un-paints the paper, that draws and un-draws what was not onto what already is. From within Gabriel shows us that it is his particular sensitivity and connection to external things that moves him, that inspires him, that pushes him to create: "My nervous system is telepathically connected to the external", he says. "Amplitude" is a personal synthesis of the artist, it is an exhibition that brings us closer to a collection of intimacies represented in the context of exteriority.