Joan Fontcuberta

1 Decembre to 22 January 2019

Fontcuberta attempts to salvage the remains of the photographic substance from the ruins, an element to which we attribute the alchemical power of retaining life, whilst evading the call of death. With ridiculous arrogance, we humans boast of using the camera to beat time and to kidnap experiences and stories, holding them prisoner. Now we realise that although this illusion could have lasted a long time, it does not last forever and in the end, time takes its revenge: the photograph, once the stronghold of memory, becomes amnesic; the image turns into a ghost,