The exhibit entitled Laberinto de miradas. Un recorrido por la fotografía documental en Iberoamérica (A Maze of Looks: A Tour around Documental Photography in Hispanic America) is being presented for the first time ever in Spain on the heels of a lengthy tour across Hispanic America.
Open at the Antiguo Edificio de Tabacalera, the exhibit will remain open to the public thru May 15. It’s all about am exhibition and publishing project by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECID) and the Catalonian House of Culture together with the Ministry of Culture. The exhibit includes the photographic works of 76 artists and 16 groups handpicked by commissioner Claudi Carreras. In all, there are over 500 documental photographs hailing from Hispanic America, Spain and Portugal.
The project comprises three nonpermanent exhibitions that have traveled around 18 American nations for nearly three years, promoted by the Spanish Network of Cultural Centers attached to AECID. The first one, Identities and Frontiers, opened at the Spanish Cultural Center in Mexico D.F. in July 2008 and since then it has traveled to more than ten countries; Frictions and Conflicts was inaugurated on Oct. 7, 2008 at the Spanish Cultural Center in Peru’s Lima and landed in Uruguay’s Montevideo in Dec. 2009 after an eight-city tour. The third one, Hispanic American Photographic Groups, opened on Dec. 10, 2008 at the Olido Gallery in Sao Paolo, Brazil and hopscotched across seven burgs.
In July 2010, all the exhibits came together for a presentation at the Spanish Cultural Center in Mexico before marching on to Chile’s Valparaiso within the framework of the Third Universal Forum of Cultures.
As commissioner Carreras has put it in his own words, A Maze of Looks intends “to give a global dimension to the status of documental photography in today’s Hispanic America by presenting multidirectional looks of the authors that work in those countries, exploring new creative discourses and delving deeper into the reality of their respective environments.”
For more information, visit http://www.laberintodemiradas.net
Antiguo Edificio de Tabacalera. C/ Embajadores, 53
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