Citing Valerie Massadian …“I believe that instinct is conscious, voluntary, in relation to is control, it `s too generouse.

It has everything to do with the way you dance with the world.

To Victor Hugo, who declared with great pride: “Instinct is the soul on all fours, thought is the spirit standing on all

fours” – I would say that instinct is the soul standing with the spirit on all fours. It is thought that elaborates and

finds an explanation to give to those who have forgotten what it is like to be on all fours.

What else is there other than instinct in that finger stretched out pressing the shutter, there, in that moment, in

that fraction of a second?

Lost among the photo albums is a multi-volume etymological dictionary, so…

INSTINCT:

– Inner and involuntary impulse that moves the human soul.

– Internal stimulation that determines the living being to be spontaneous, involuntary, or even forced; action for

the purpose of preservation or reproduction; or, more precisely, a mode of brain activity that leads to the

execution of an act without being aware of its purpose. …”

Lorena Morin was born in Gran Canaria in 1973 and currently lives and works in Berlin. She studied artistic

photography between 1992 and 1995 in Boston, cinema in Barcelona, and completed her cinema course in Gran

Canaria.

She immediately joined the team at the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival. An important

influence on Lorena’s photography was the fact that she surrounded herself with radical authors and watched

their original films.

She is a mother of 5 children.

Since 2007, she has been obsessively photographing and filming her family, building an ongoing project called “Je

reste avec vous”. She is one of the photographers of the Temps Zero collective, an international group of artists

who work with photography, film and sound, presenting exhibitions and performances throughout Europe. She

recently published a book with Brazo de Papel/Fotonoviembre called Himmelskörper.