Photography
“‘The city’, says Manolo Laguillo, ‘is the largest of all human-made objects’. The city, in marked contrast to the residential settlements of the rural environment, is also, without a doubt, the most characteristic habitat model of today’s world. And yet its close connection with the present does not exclude a burden of historical substance that … Continued
In 2020, María José Jove Foundation from A Coruña invited me to be, in collaboration with Juan de Nieves, the editor of a publication by photographer Damián Ucieda, in which Ucieda’s photo essay was to be presented alongside a selection of archival documentation illustrating the project’s context. “In addition to the photographs from Camiño negro, … Continued
«En sus horas de trabajo, Haacke se dedicó a observar a los visitantes y aprovechó para tomar numerosas fotografías que documentan…»
«El archivo, en sus numerosísimas manifestaciones posibles, es el repositorio por excelencia de la memoria y el recuerdo, herramientas indispensables en la construcción de la identidad tanto individual como colectiva. Entre los soportes en los que los documentos del archivo, a su vez, atrapan y fijan en el tiempo los recuerdos, la fotografía ocupa desde su invención un lugar…»
Territorio Archivo, or «Archive Territory» [territorioarchivo.org], is a work-in-progress promoted by filmmaker Chus Domínguez and developed by Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia [www.fcayc.org/en], Peñaranda Cultural Centre (part of Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez) [cds.fundaciongsr.com], and a group of so-called “domestic preservers”. The photographs that make up the family albums of the residents in the surrounding regions of … Continued
«…The first magazine, entitled WC, which referred to the famous Fontaine (1917) by Marcel Duchamp, was a collective project that spanned five issues and adopted the format of an envelope which included wood engravings, collages, graphic compositions, foldable leaflets and texts-manifestos…»
When the Catalan photographer Xavier Miserachs (Barcelona, 1937) passed away, in 1998, he left behind almost fifty years of professional practice, and an archive of over 80.000 photographic negatives. In 2010, it was my role to start a conversation with Miserachs’s heirs, previously approached through MACBA advisors, so as to draft a plan with a … Continued