Encuentros

"This exhibition presents a meeting between the photographs from the collections of the 9915 Association and the Centro de Arte Alcobendas, both composed of works from different creative environments, converging in a multiplicity of views that span the last hundred years of contemporary photography. The selection of works is configured as a constellation of different voices and practices from the world of photography, which attempts to offer a broad vision of the image created from the last century to the present. We have tried to configure this vision through a series of visual, social and conceptual arguments, which unite and relate the works, and which offer the possibility of creating suggestive encounters, juxtapositions and dialogues. By relating the works based on associations of moments and photographic practices that are well represented in both collections, we have been involved in showing the formal characteristics, artistic expressions and aesthetic concerns of current photographers. We have also wanted to transmit the open spirit of the creative flow that characterizes our time. The exhibition Encuentros seeks to involve visitors by identifying similarities, comparing and interpreting images from both collections, and to enjoy the coexistence of heterogeneous trends and languages ​​typical of the second half of the 20th century and the first two decades of the 21st. A large number of the works on display do not correspond to the typical images one expects to find from the photographers one knows, but rather the discovery of a much more personal and intimate side of the artist confronted with himself" -- gallery's website viewed November 26, 2024.