INSTANT OF ARCHETYPAL SYNCHRONIZATION

Since ancient times, the human body has served as a measure through which to imagine the world. In Instant of Archetypal Synchronization, this relationship takes the form of the Tree of Life, one of the great symbolic structures of the Kabbalistic tradition. Its ten sefirot, linked by twenty-two paths, form a map of emanations, relationships, and passages between the material and the spiritual, the particular and the universal.

The Tree is inscribed directly onto the body. Its centers and paths correspond to the anatomy, while the figure, facing forward and exposed, retains its full physical presence. Geometry and flesh coexist in a single image. The symbol proposes an order, and the painting gives it a body.

Color belongs to this same architecture. The work draws on the symbolic language associated with divine emanations: chromatic differences make distinct qualities perceptible within a shared structure. Color, line, and body thus build a network of correspondences between the human and the transcendent. Color no longer accompanies the symbol; it becomes part of its language.

This chromatic system continues in the horizontal bands of the background and will later be developed in The Thresholds. Space is arranged in layers, like different states that can coexist in a single instant. What appears gathered here will later unfold as a journey in Awakening, Labyrinth, Metamorphosis, and Illumination. The painting thus contains, in potential, the path that will follow.

At the heart of this iconography, different traditions of medieval Jewish mysticism converge. The Sefer Yetzirah relates the ten sefirot to twenty-two fundamental paths, while the Zohar, or Book of Splendor, explores the conception of a reality structured through emanations and correspondences. Modern scholarship closely associates the writing and dissemination of the Zohar with Moses de León (c. 1240–1305), who spent the final years of his life in Ávila and died there. In the context of the exhibition, his figure brings into this symbolic universe a memory also connected to the region.

The title names the moment when all these relationships seem to converge. Body, color, geometry, and symbol synchronize in a single image. The archetypal ceases to be a distant form belonging only to the past: it reappears, finds a body, and takes on a new presence.

The painting captures that moment of balance in which different dimensions of being seem to recognize one another within a single order.