Foto Colectania brings together some of Marcelo Brodsky's best-known series

Marcelo Brodsky was born in Buenos Aires in 1954. In the 1970s the Argentinean dictatorship forced him into exile and he arrived in Spain. An activist and artist, his work combines images and interventions with colour and text, and is situated between photography, installation, performance and memorial. "The photographs are always open to multiple interpretations, and my interventions on the images suggest a direction. The added texts and colours construct an alternative form of language, a poetics of resistance. What I try to do by intervening historical images and recovering their context is to shoot arrows into the future, which is our present," says the artist. His work vindicates civil rights movements and seeks restorative justice, for example for the victims of the genocide in the colonial state of German South West Africa (today's Namibia). From 2 February, Foto Colectania brings together some of Brodsky's most iconic series. Among the "retouched" snapshots that will be on view is, for example, the emblematic 1968. The Fire of Ideas, which shows the movements unleashed around the world in 1968, images of the struggle against Franco's regime in Spain and also against Apartheid in South Africa (in this case a work done four-handed with the photographer Gideon Mendel). Also a much more recent series, entitled National Strike, on the uprisings in Colombia two years ago.

The exhibition is called Marcelo Brodsky. Poetic Resistance, and is an excellent opportunity to get to know the work of this committed artist, who bases his work on the refiguration of the image. Some of the images you will see take as a backdrop well-known spaces in Barcelona; this is the case of Self-Portrait as Shot to Death, taken in the Plaça Sant Felip Neri and considered one of the most outstanding photographs in his chronicle of exile.

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