18.06.2024
Unknown City Beneath the Mist. New Images from Barcelona’s Peripheries
A critical and civil tradition that sees photography as a counter-discourse to advertising.
This photographic project, about Barcelona seen from the suburbs that sprang up as a result of postwar migration to the city, is in line with the tradition of local photographic projects about urban development since the Olympic era. A critical and civil tradition that sees photography as a counter-discourse to advertising.
Historically, the periphery has always been the most innovative part of the city, the place where emerging tendencies first manifest themselves. Hence, a project about the periphery will work as a future prospect of the evolution of Barcelona in the next few years and offer significant documentation about the city during the current decade.
In the past, Barcelona’s suburbs have grown in two opposite geographic areas: the north and north-west zone, from the Besòs River to the hills of Collserola, and the south and south-east zone, which includes the historic centre of the Raval and the Gothic Quarter, and the back of Montjuïc, which borders with the harbour and the Zona Franca.
The project includes thirteen commissioned works, some of a transversal character spanning different neighbourhoods, and others constructed as field studies of a more specific nature. Their focus is also varied, with some purely topographic, while others address social issues.
Historically, the periphery has always been the most innovative part of the city, the place where emerging tendencies first manifest themselves. Hence, a project about the periphery will work as a future prospect of the evolution of Barcelona in the next few years and offer significant documentation about the city during the current decade.
In the past, Barcelona’s suburbs have grown in two opposite geographic areas: the north and north-west zone, from the Besòs River to the hills of Collserola, and the south and south-east zone, which includes the historic centre of the Raval and the Gothic Quarter, and the back of Montjuïc, which borders with the harbour and the Zona Franca.
The project includes thirteen commissioned works, some of a transversal character spanning different neighbourhoods, and others constructed as field studies of a more specific nature. Their focus is also varied, with some purely topographic, while others address social issues.
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Roda de premsa / Rueda de prensa / Press release: “Una ciutat desconeguda sota la boira”
Roda de premsa / Rueda de prensa / Press release: “Una ciutat desconeguda sota la boira”
MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona is holding a press conference on Tuesday, June 18, at 11.00 am, to announce the ‘Unknown City Beneath the Mist. New Images from Barcelona’s Peripheries’ exhibition at the Library El Carmel – Juan Marsé (carrer de la Murtra, 135, 145. 08032 Barcelona). Speakers: Elvira Dyangani Ose, director of MACBA, Jorge Ribalta, curator of the exhibition and Jeff Wall, artist.
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