La Virreina Centre de la Imatge is giving way to its fall exhibitions
La Virreina is opening three new exhibitions that will be available until the beginning of January 2022
Just as fall marks a change of wardrobe, many museums also change their exhibitions in October. One of them is La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, which is opening three new exhibitions on October 15 that will be available until January 16, 2022. To start with, you have the new creation from artist and photographer Joan Fontcuberta titled Ça-a-été? Against Barthes. In this exhibition, Fontcuberta confronts Roland Barthes, the author of one of the most cited essays on photography, Camera Lucida. Foncuberta refutes one of his most solid arguments, which, according to Barthes, is the noema of photography, the 'Ça-a-été' (this has been), which is the concept that if something is in an image, that is irrefutable proof that it has been or has existed. Foncuberta shows a series of photographs that argue this theory due to their theatrics, as their preparation and artificiality is obvious, and they lose their documental value.
Valentín Roma is the curator of the Conquest of the useless, the first retrospective exhibition by Adrià Julià (Barcelona, 1974) with projects he has made from 2006 until today. Some of the available pieces are: Notes on the Missing Oh (2009-2015), about the trivialisation and popularisation of war; Cat on the Shoulder (2013-ongoing), focused on the links between machine, devices and body; and Ruinas da Fala (2009-2011), which depicts the experience of the Fourierist phalansteries in Brazil during the 19th century. Julià's work is characterised by the historical exploration combined with art, as he carries out prior research about the historical, political and scientific regimes under which cultures of the image have developed, putting them into practice according to the narrative saught to capture.
Lastly, they will inaugurate Da zero, an exhibition curated by Marta Dahó, about one of the key figures of the renewal of photographic practices: Guido Guidi (Cesena, Italy, 1941), a very prolific author, which is reflected in the more than 250 photographs that make up this retrospective. He started in this discipline at the age of 15, and from then, his work has been revolutionising spaces and ways of looking through the lenses, offering different processes of understanding and multiple readings of his works. The title of this exhibition, Dahó, not only references the first works by Guidi but also the author's search for the process of initiating a photograph and why it is made.
Access to La Virreina is free, and you can visit the exhibitions from Tuesdays to Sundays, holidays included. Check the centre's website for more information.