In the set of triptychs 'Hide and Seek', Alexandre Conefrey uses a photographic process called cibachrome (reproduction of slides on photographic paper) to create a series of images completely blurred to the point of distortion, apparently chaotic and repetitive, emerging as new forms of figurative representation in the artist's work. Despite the evident work of zooming, in each image, simultaneously static and elusive, there are spots and structural lines in the background that allow a certain perception and a level of recognition of the image, albeit insecure and elusive. As with Conefrey's other body of work, the title of this series is an active component in the construction of the piece. The reference to Vernon Scannell's poem, which shares the same title, refers to the children's game of " hide and seek ", a choice that frames and reflects well both what is seen (and not seen) in the images, and the relationship that the observer establishes with them: the certainty and uncertainty of presence/recognition, the pendulum movement between the known and the unknown, between what can be identified and what can only be guessed at, between reality and fiction. These actions and movements are, however, paralysed in time, coming to life only in the successive, circular, or pendular reading of each of the images in the triptychs. Conefrey's work of shadow and light - and their respective gradations of colour - mirrors the actions of hiding, searching, and finding, evident in the title, inevitable and inescapable movements throughout the various moments of life, which endow the images with an aura of poetic and existential memory.