Paris Photo 2023

RocioSantaCruz presents in Paris Photo 2023 social, feminist and postcolonial issues. Antoni Campañà (Arbúcies, 1905 – Sant Cugat del Vallés, 1989) offers the social history of Spain in 1936, at the outbreak of the Civil War. Marcel Giró (Badalona, 1913 – San Cugat del Vallés, 2022) and Palmira Puig (Tàrrega, Lleida, Spain, 1912 – Barcelona, 1979) (members of the FotoCine Clube Bandeirante) offer the social view of Brazil in the 1950s. Mara Catalán, with a selection of unpublished vintage photographs, witnessed, hand in hand with Subcomandante Marcos, the Chapatista Revolution of 1996 in Mexico.

As usual, we present a selection of vintage photographs from the 1960s/79s by Colita (Barcelona, 1940), with a social and explicitly feminist content. Pilar Aymerich (Barcelona, 1943) and her series Travestis (1972) is the first photographic record of transsexuals during the Franco regime. The pioneering trans women who expressed their gender identity during carnival, or those who underwent sex reassignment surgery, have a face of their own in Aymerich’s reflective gaze. Contemporary positions are taken by Gloria Oyarzabal (London, 1971) and Toni Amengual (Mallorca, Spain, 1980), who question Western narratives of legitimacy. Oyarzabal, nominated for the Prix Elysse23, rethinks the museum in the post-colonial debate; Amengual questions the power of images and tourism in European capitals.

In this 2023 edition we pay tribute to Ouka Leele, (Madrid, 1957 – 2022), by exhibiting her first unpublished works from the 1980s. The international artist ORLAN (Saint-Ètiene, France) presents at our stand her series of hybridisations of relevant female figures from history, including Agnès Varda and Olympes de Gouges.

-Ouka Leele
– Colita
– Colita (Temática social)
– Pilar Aymerich
– ORLAN
– Mara Catalán
– Antoni Campañà
– Marcel Giró
– Palmira Puig
– Gloria Oyarzabal
– Toni Amengual
– Manel Armengol

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