My relationship with Kamel Mennour began in spring 2001. He invited me to exhibit at 60 rue Mazarine alongsideNobuyoshiAraki, Roger Ballen, Peter Beard, Larry Clark, Pierre Molinier, Jan Saudek, Stephen Shore and Zineb Sedira. Lo que queda por venir [What is yet to come] celebrates thetwenty years ofour relationship andfriendship, throughsome oftheimages thatmarked thebeginning ofour shared adventure. The works presented are vintage prints, mostly artist proofs. They carry the atmosphere of the days when they were made. An atmosphere from which I can’t escape. Nor can I faIl to read in them my vocation as a photographer. Time gives us perspective. I have done nothing but portray what is my own, my world. A world that is always evolving. A gaze can be trained. Taking photographs is an exercise in the present moment. But photography does not capture it as such. It is a transmission of the past... It chains my memory and exposes it to the light. The melancholic emotion of the unavoidable becomes visible and brings it back to the present. These images have that power: to transmit the past, exist in the present and resonate still. Always alive... A timeless emotion. The exhibition Lo que queda por venir functions as an echo, A resonance of this idea and–following the natural course of events–it will also be what is yet to come, the future. — Alberto García-Alix