April 22, 2023

The photographer Gloria Oyarzabal has been nominated for the Photography Prize awarded by the Enaire Foundation, aimed at promoting photographic creation and encouraging the acquisition of works for the ENAIRE Collection. The three winning works will be included in that collection.

In the series La Blanche et la Noire (USUS FRUCTUS ABUSCUS) (2022), it is part of a postmodern discourse focused on the visibilization of racial otherness. With it, Oyarzabal problematizes the museum as a container and perpetuator of the colonial discourse, rereading the plundering of African cultures that has fed the spaces that make up the museum narrative in Europe from the 18th century to the present day.

From the gallery team we wish Gloria Oyarzabal the best of luck!

On the 27th of April, 2023, the photographer Toni Amengual will open the exhibition Perles de Mallorca at Casal Solleric in Palma. It is an exhibition that brings together the most recent production of Amengual, focusing on the portrait of the island of Mallorca, where he is originally from. In the author’s own words:

“Driving around the island, photographing the infrastructures that have been built for decades to accommodate a floating population that is 15 times larger than the permanent population. A population that from one day to the next seems to have stopped floating.

“Tourism requires that natural landscapes, ethnic groups or cities are organized, geographically and symbolically, according to the requirements of commercial exploitation (i.e. the “tourist park”). The scenarios are classified and divided into units suitable for integration into the commercial network of tour operators and travel agencies. The economic exploitation of nature and local cultures is achieved when these elements are transformed into objects of “contemplation” through an iconography saturated with meanings that can be sold in the tourist industry”. (E. Illouz. The consumption of the romantic utopia. 2009).

The pearl is the result of the irritation of the oyster” – Toni Amengual

Next April 28, until May 5, 2023, Andres Galeano opens the exhibition Cumulus, at the art center the Gimp in Berlin, together with the artist Friedrich Herz.

Diogo Pimentao participates in the exhibition Descuradas. Obras da Coleção Norlinda e José Lima held at the Centro de Arte Oliva in São João da Madeira (Portugal). It is a group exhibition focused on showing works belonging to the Norlinda and José Lima Collection.

From 01.04.2023 to 17.09.2023, curated by Sara & André