Next Monday, October 4th, we will enjoy a new photo talk, which will be given by Pep Ros Nicolau with the title

Artistic practices and image archives. New uses of photo collections.

Pere Pratdesaba. Monument. Wire thieves, Jordi Mitjà, 2012. Installation. Espai 13. Joan Miró Foundation. Barcelona.

This activity will be FACE-TO-FACE and will take place as usual at the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc (carrer Mercaders, 42, Barcelona) although it can also be followed online via the link https://meet.jit.si/FTT_2021

The relationship between the archive and artistic practice has entered a new phase in recent times. The centrality of archival documents in artistic practices, and how artists have turned their gaze to those, is the theme around which this presentation revolves.

From the study and analysis of some cases, a theoretical reflection is proposed on how some contemporary artistic practices use the archives, in this case photographic, to elaborate discourses and artistic projects that either project a new look on the materials that they are preserved, seen with a new intentionality and perspective from the intellectual and aesthetic baggage of a critical position and / or experience in the interpretation and reading of images or give new functions and meanings to these documents, going beyond both their content and of its iconographic value as of the photographic object itself.

In both cases, the creation of the research artist becomes a work of recovery projection, a dialogue between past and future. It is a relationship in which the element of time is inherent in photography itself since its genesis, without which it could not exist, but which at the same time ends up appearing in it and determining its death, also becomes a necessary and essential part. to structure and sustain these artistic practices.

Fototertúlia brochure (Catalan and Spanish)

See you there!