{"id":4319,"date":"2025-12-30T11:35:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T10:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cacp-villaperochon.com\/agenda\/joan-fontcuberta-monsters\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:21:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:21:36","slug":"joan-fontcuberta-monsters","status":"publish","type":"agenda","link":"https:\/\/www.cacp-villaperochon.com\/en\/agenda\/joan-fontcuberta-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Fontcuberta – Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Joan FONTCUBERTA<\/strong>Monsters<\/h1><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Rencontres de la jeune photographie internationale 2023Guest of honor<\/h2><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The old world – photography as a promise of truth and memory – is dying, and the new world – images generated by artificial intelligence – is struggling to emerge. From document to speculation, from natural images to false ones, in this exhibition Joan Fontcuberta proposes to trace the chiaroscuro, while pointing the finger at emerging monstrosities: monstrosities of language, technique, politics, history. In Latin, “monstrum”<\/em> was a religious term for a prodigy, a supernatural event, and from “monstrum<\/em>” derive “monstrare” <\/em>and “demonstrare” <\/em>: to show and demonstrate, verbs that take us back to the world of experience and knowledge. This time, we’re going to try and show the monsters. Monstres <\/em>thus ventures through a series of conflicts and violence of our time, always trying to save, however, what still makes us human and commits us to values that reject barbarism. He presents half a dozen recent projects, both poetic and disruptive, ranging from Trauma <\/em>to Prosopagnosia <\/em>(produced with Pilar Rosado). An alpha and an omega: from the debris of photography – images from archives and family albums that become damaged and amnesiac, while their most terrible beauty shines through – to predictions of possible futures and algorithms, which we don’t know whether they are nightmares or guarantees of progress.Between the critical gaze and the conceptual, between the poetic and the humorous, Fontcuberta tries to ensure that images cease to be inhospitable territory: if Francisco de Goya’s precept stated that “the dream of reason produces monsters”, we must assume the duty of overturning it, and make the dream of monsters produce reason. In short, we must try to rethink photography, and thus tame monsters. Series presented:Trauma<\/em>, \u00c9levage de poussi\u00e8re<\/em>, \u00c0 la m\u00e9moire<\/em>, Gastropoda<\/em>, Fahrenheit 451<\/em>, Prosopagnosia<\/em>, Phrenographies<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Il vecchio mondo sta morendo. Quello nuovo tarda a comparire. E in questo chiaroscuro nascono i mostri”“The old world is dying. The new is slow to appear. And in this chiaroscuro, monsters are born.”Antonio Gramsci<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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