It is a space where we continue to develop work focused on experimenting with film material to create performative proposals for Expanded Cinema.

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Our first performance is called ‘Morfologías Fluctuantes’ (Fluctuating Morphologies), with footage shot in a former industrial area of Barcelona (Las Tres Ximeneas) and in the Monegros desert. The special sound has been developped by our dear friend and artist Alfredo Costa Monteiro.

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This piece slowly expands into a triptych that, through pendulum movements, evokes not only a temporality without beginning or end, but also a state of transition.

This perpetual movement reveals traces of human activity in the form of post-industrial landscapes that did not survive the passage of time, carrying within them the omen of a change to come.
A change towards natural horizons that in their opposite rectilinear movements recalls the circularity of time, accentuated by the materiality and texture of the rocks that are a symbol of durability and permanence.

The sound, obtained with several oscillators connected to three photoelectric cells, adds very subtle sonic transformations, depending on each of these movements.
This device is used here in a way that does not disturb the fluidity of the images, thus creating a very intricate relationship between what is seen and what is heard.

And little by little that materiality is dissolving, finally becoming air.

Screened and performed at:

Zumzeig Cinema, Barcelona

Le Lieu Unique, Nantes

Antic Teatre, Barcelona

Gran Lux, Saint Etienne

Le 102, Grenoble

CCCB, Barcelona

Image

Barbara Ghidini
2 x 16mm NT projectors, zoom lenses, water, transparencies

Antonio Bértolo
2 x 16mm NT projectors, zoom lenses, image multipliers, filters, prisms, transparencies

Sound

Alfredo Costa Monteiro
oscillators, photoelectric cells, radios

Fine art photography printed on Hahnemühle cotton paper
Dimensions: 30 × 40 cm
Edition: 1/7 + 2 A.P.
Signed and numbered on verso

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The series Sediments was born from the desire to listen to photographic matter in its slowest breath.

In these chemigrams, gesture withdraws to make space for reaction — for the secret dialogue between emulsion, light, and time.

The images emerge like organic remnants, geological fragments, traces of invisible processes: they do not depict, they reveal.

Color becomes earthy — brown, gold, copper — conveying a sense of return to origin, to a ground still warm with transformation.

Each surface is an alchemical site where dissolution gives birth to new forms, where accident becomes language.

Sediments is a meditation on impermanence and the memory of matter: what remains after the passage of time, what time itself leaves as a trace of life.

Part of an ongoing exploration into the autonomy of silver paper material.

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Fine art photography printed on Hahnemühle cotton paper
Dimensions: 30 × 40 cm
Edition: 1/7 + 2 A.P.
Signed and numbered on verso

Each work is an alchemical sedimentation: traces of gold, red, and black emerge as remnants of a luminous metamorphosis.
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On the photosensitive paper, light and chemistry converse as opposing yet complementary forces.
By intervening directly on the surface, I allow the material to react, transform, and oxidise.
Each trace and colour is born from an unpredictable encounter — light wounds, time deposits, chemistry leaves behind fragments that seem to surface from a memory’s depth.
Gold, red, and black evoke combustion and rebirth: an inner geology where the image does not represent, but emerges.

Part of an ongoing exploration into the autonomy of silver paper material.

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Fine art photography printed on Hahnemühle cotton paper
Dimensions: 30 × 40 cm
Edition: 1/7 + 2 A.P.
Signed and numbered on verso

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Fine art photography printed on Hahnemühle cotton paper
Dimensions: 40 × 40 cm
Edition: 1/7 + 2 A.P.
Signed and numbered on verso

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más allá de la mente _ a través del juego

mirando hacia adentro _ la danza familiar

 

 

Self-Portraits

Project “Self Portraits from a Box of Negatives” has awarded 1st place and gold star medal in the 2021 ND Awards category People.

Please have a look to the selection here.

Self-Portraits

Project “Self-Portraits from a Box of Negatives” has awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Prix de la Photographie de Paris, category Fine Art.

Please have a look at the project here.

Homenaje a los fotógrafos minuteros juntos a un interesante reportaje al amigo Rosario Patané y su pasión por la química fotográfica y la street photography.

Aquí les dejo el artículo dedicado a los fotógrafos itinerantes.

Box Camera NOW ofrece una visión única de una nueva generación de fotógrafos minuteros que trabajan en la calle y en estudios con cámaras principalmente caseras.
Estas herramientas rudimentarias siguen la historia de los fotógrafos callejeros que trabajaron en todo el mundo en parques y en las esquinas de las calles, creando recuerdos baratos y experiencias fotográficas por primera vez para el pueblo.

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Box Camera NOW incluye a 54 fotógrafos de 21 países de todo el mundo.
Cada fotógrafo con su propio estilo y adaptación de la Box Camera.
Cada uno con su propia habilidad única para convertir el papel foto sensible en un objeto memorable.

With images by: Adrien Tache, Alain Paris, Aurélien de Saint André, Barbara Ghidini, Benoit Capponi,  Cássia Xavier & Gustavo Falqueiro, Charlotte Guey, Chen Zi Wua, Clément Marion, Conrado Pinamonti, Low CQ, Damien Gautier, Daniel Robinson, Diogo Baptista, Ferdows Faghir, Flo Gales, George Papageorgiou, Gianni De Gregorio, Guillaume Koessler, Hans Zeeldieb, Irwandi, M. Fajar Apriyanto & Ade Aulia Rahman, Iris Chauveau, Jean-Michel Delage, Jeffrey Lim, Jorge Luis , Joshua Carroll, Justine Montmarché & Sébastien Bergeron, Landry Dunand, Leicester lo-fi photography, Luis Duarte, Maikel Plasencia González, Malcolm Hutcheson,Marc Kairies, Marie Chaloyard, Mauricio Sapata, Mehdi Nédellec , Michaël Mosset, Mitsu Maeda & Sono Aida, Oliver Zenklusen, Radilson Carlos Gomes, Rodrigo Abd, Steffen Diemer & Hannah Schemel, Tess Saunders, Thibaut Piel, Valentine Riccardi

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Analog black and white photography, silver gelatin print and intervention in the digital scanner.

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The photo sequences are inspired by the cinematic sequences of the film ‘Le Sang d’un Poète’ and Jean Cocteau’s book ‘La Difficulté d’Être’.

FREE TO CHOOSE THE FACES, SHAPES, GESTURES, TONES, ACTIONS AND PLACES THAT YOU LIKE, YOU CAN USE THEM TO COMPOSE A REALISTIC DOCUMENTARY OF UNREAL EVENTS. – from ‘Le Sang d’un Poète’.

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CHECKERS

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PARTE I – EL CUERPO Y LA MENTE

“SUCEDE Y PUEDE PASAR DESAPERCIBIDO”

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PARTE II – ILUMINAR UN PENSAMIENTO

“VIVO UN PRESENTE QUE ME PERTENECE”

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PARTE III – PROFUNDIDAD DE VISIÓN

“LA MUJER DUERME. SE HA SALIDO CON LA SUYA. YA NO DEBE MENTIR”

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In the series ‘Checkers. What goes up?’ private and external events converge on the surface of the image itself through a play of illusions and transparencies to tell the story of the escape from the limiting reality in which we are imprisoned and confined every day.

Checkers is a metaphor for our lives and, by their very nature, the pawns in checkers, humans, are forced to move within certain limits according to pre-established rules, often imposed or self-imposed.

In the story, photography is not only the medium that creates a perceived reality but, through its material physicality, that is, the analogue black and white photogram, it becomes the tangible tool that helps us to cross the boundaries of the queen, creating an ideal gateway to a new world and a new consciousness of being.

Broadening our gaze and expanding our knowledge to investigate our role in the world and seek our true identity as human beings.