NEW NARRATIVES IN THE FOTO COLECTANIA COLLECTION IN MIAMI
The exhibition Beyond the Single Image. Spanish Photography from the Foto Colectania Collection, Barcelona, at The Marguiles Collection at the Warehouse in Miami, presents 150 works by 36 artists from the Foto Colectania Collection, that currently comprises more than 3,000 photographs by Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese authors, making it undoubtedly one of the most comprehensive private photography collections in the Iberian Peninsula.
Curated by Carles Guerra, the exhibition is thematically structured into 20 sequences grouped into 10 sections, creating a dialectic between a single image and what we could describe as an alternative development of events through photographic sequences. The display of the works in the exhibition, that refers to a photographic atlas, reveals an unusual capacity to transform Foto Colectania’s collection into an apparatus that produces new narratives and interpretations out of connections, juxtapositions and unlikely sequences. The images testify to a dual modernization process that began in the 1950s, reflecting changes in both the photographic medium and the societies of Southern Europe.
According to Carles Guerra: “Modernization often became synonymous with iconization, reducing and synthesizing reality into an emblematic image. These were the photographs that shaped events; although each event would have generated many more versions of what happened, only one image acquired iconic status. An image that is often recognized with just a tacit agreement”.
Participating Photographers
Laia Abril, Helena Almeida, Manel Armengol, Pilar Aymerich, Clemente Bernad, Josep María Casademont, Gérard Castello-Lopes, Colita, Joan Colom, Gabriel Cualladó, Jordi Esteva, Joan Fontcuberta, Alberto García-Alix, Cristina García Rodero, Francisco Gómez, Joaquim Gomis, Fernando Gordillo, Roger Guaus, Cristóbal Hara, Manolo Laguillo, Adriana López Sanfeliu, Chema Madoz, Ramón Masats, Cristina de Middel, Xavier Miserachs, Jorge Molder, Carlos Pérez Siquier, Leopoldo Pomés, Jorge Ribalta, Xavier Ribas, Humberto Rivas, Rafael Sanz Lobato, Txema Salvans, Ton Sirera, Ricard Terré, Miguel Trillo.
Beyond the Single Image. Spanish Photography from the Foto Colectania Collection, Barcelona
November 13, 2024 - April 26, 2025
The Marguiles Collection at the Warehouse. 591 NW 27th St. Miami, United States.
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