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I never would have imagined that one of the exhibitions featuring my grandfather Martín Chambi's photographic work would be shared with the artwork of Mr. Fernando de Szyszlo, a great contemporary Peruvian painter. This is a unique and fantastic case where Chambi and De Szyszlo, photography and painting, come together. Although the two works have different natures, in this case, they are linked through a transcendent motif shared in different times and spaces. This sharing is the Incan essence, a theme to which both artists had a constant attitude of reflection, approach, and creation. Both were sensitive to the vast pre-Hispanic dimension and directed their gaze to the deepest roots of our history. Someone once said that painting and photography, although independent and defined by their own natures, often intersect to generate new forms of expression. This exhibition proposes this intersection, where each discipline maintains its independence in language but at the same time travels along common lines. Both creations coincide here in their approach to the mystery of light and shadow, in their interest in the silent voice of history, and in their intention to discover in the solidity of stone the lightness of form. I want to express my gratitude to Roberto Ascóniga, the organizer of this daring encounter, in which silver gelatin and canvas pigment have come together with the purpose of creating a path for two visual expressions that perhaps share the same intuition about our past and its beauty. Finally, all that remains is for us to admire these creations that transcend technique and be willing to appreciate the artistic work with all the strength, synthesis, and dynamism that both the photographer Martín Chambi and the painter Fernando de Szyszlo have been able to define. Teo Allain Chambi