GISELA LOEWE – ELIZABETH MCMILLAN 

Galería Rafael Ortiz is pleased to present Seeings of Motion and Stillness, a joint exhibition by artists Gisela Loewe and Elizabeth McMillan, on view from May 28 to June 20, 2025, at the gallery’s venue in Seville. Through two deeply personal and complementary perspectives, this show revolves around the many ways of perceiving motion and stillness in contemporary life.

GISELA LOEWE, a German artist (Heidelberg, 1957) who divides her time between Andalusia, Germany, and Greece, offers unaltered, unretouched photography based on the spontaneous observation of light in its relationship with time and space. In her images—captured in settings as diverse as the Baltic, Berlin, or Seville—light reveals fleeting geometries, natural compositions, and ephemeral scenes that invite contemplation. Her photographs capture moments of balance between what moves and what remains still, highlighting the everyday and the seemingly insignificant as spaces of poetic revelation.

ELIZABETH MCMILLAN (Cleveland, Ohio, 1941), an American photographer based between Seville and San Francisco, creates work born from physical movement: the camera in motion, the car in motion, the city seen in transit. From her early analog works to her current digital images—in which she combines the tremor of her hand with techniques such as panning—McMillan has developed a vibrant visual language where blurriness takes center stage and accidents become artistic expression. Her photos portray urban life from a fragmented, emotional, and constantly shifting perspective.

Seeings of Motion and Stillness is an invitation to look at the world with renewed attention. Through the contrast between Loewe’s attentive stillness and McMillan’s mobile gaze, the exhibition offers a visual reflection on how we perceive the real, the transient, and the invisible.