The body cannot only be considered a physical space: it is rather a product resulting from our personal and cultural history, a social construct. From the origins of mankind the body has been painted, adorned, marked, pierced, burned. In other words, it is nothing other than a “battlefield” imbued in a constant process of transformation and redefinition.
This use of the body as a ground of creation has been growing in photography since a few years. The symbolic power the body has on public space is tremendously significant, both in terms of appropriation of space and in political terms. The body situated and narrated from our own perspective constructs a power that is installed in universal space and that ques- tions the most traditional discourses. This exhibition complies with the original statutes of the Colección Alcobendas: featuring the best of contemporary Spanish creation and putting forward a new focus by selecting the best pieces of the collection where humans are in the limelight.
Photographers : Luis Baylón, Juan Manuel Castro Prieto, Toni Catany, Tomy Ceballos, Juan Manuel Díaz Burgos, Pere Formiguera, Cristina García Rodero, Benito García Román, Alberto García-Alix, Gabriela Grech, Alfonso Herráiz, Encarna Marín, Jesús Micó, Isabel Muñoz, Rafael Navarro, Pablo Pérez-Mínguez, Jorge Rueda, Juan Salido, Gervasio Sánchez, Rafael Trobat
The Body Revealed in the Colección Alcobendas
PHotoEspaña 2013
June 5 – July 28, 2013
Real jardín Botánico – CSIC
Madrid
Spain
