ISRAEL ARIÑO (Barcelona, 1974)
Since its beginnings, Israel Ariño’s work has been conceived around the act of seeing. His projects are rooted, in his own words: “in the desire for images to contain and express the invisible, that which hides behind an image, that which suggests, that which makes us dream.” Sensitive to light and matter, the artist offers a form of photography whose language serves to question, transcend, and reinvent reality.
Israel Ariño translates his exploration of territories and stories -whose sensory quality reveals a poetic nature- into numerous self-published artist books and seven monographs edited by Ediciones Anómalas.
His work is regularly exhibited and is part of prestigious collections, such as Neuflize in Paris, the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, among others.
In addition to his photographic work, he has been teaching since 2005, and since 2013, he has served as the editor of Ediciones Anómalas. In 2019, he co-founded, alongside Clara Gassull, the cultural space LaBabuch, a place for experimentation and research on education and alternative narratives.
His work is represented by Galerie VU (Paris), Box Galerie (Brussels), Tosei Gallery (Tokyo), and Espace JB (Geneva).
JUANA DOLORES (El Prat de Llobregat, 1992)
She studied Acting at the Escola Superior d’Art Dramàtic of the Institut del Teatre (Barcelona). An actress by training, she writes and directs her own plays such as HIT ME IF I’M PRETTY and la princesa moderna (2023).
She is also a poet and video artist. Notable works include the poetry collection Bijuteria (56th Amadeu Oller Catalan Poetry Prize, 2020, published by Galerada) and the audiovisual piece MISS UNIVERSO (2021).
Her work stems from the dialectic between politics and beauty.
Currently, her artistic research and reflections focus on the revolutionary and propagandistic potentialities of beauty in socialist realism and fiction, as well as the study of femininity, sexuality, desire, eroticism, and pornography..
JOSEP MARIA GANYET (Vic, 1965)
Computer Engineer from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence. He has worked in the field of Human Computer Interaction, design, teaching and communication in companies such as IBM, Deutsche Bank and Gotomedia. He has created companies in the fields of design, communication and archeology.
He currently directs the digital agency Mortensen, teaches Audiovisual Communication at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and gives lectures. He collaborates with La Vanguardia, Vía Emprendida, TV3, Catalunya Ràdio and Cavall Fort.
SANDY MOLDAVIA (Barcelona, 1994)
Master’s in theory of literature and Comparative Literature (Universitat de Barcelona, 2019) and graduate in Arts and Design with a mention in Visual Narration (Escola Massana, 2016).
Visual artist who investigates the poetics of failure derived from capitalism through a critical reading of the social context that surrounds it, making use of photomontage, writing and embroidery.
She has exhibited, Fracasada, in the Mirada Pilot program (2020), winner of the Art Jove 2021 scholarship with her Project, *_I LOVE YOU WITH ALL MY HEART_*, exhibited at the Sala d’Art Jove (2021) and A Cobert (2023). Together with the Pluja Àcida collective, she has rotated the Project, *BON DIA // BONA NIT*, through La Farinera del Clot, Can Basté, the C.C. and at the Espai de Gent Gran Baró de Viver in the Temporals program (2022-2023); and, in parallel, he carries out artistic workshops within the collective @HYBRIS.VIRAL.
TANIT PLANA (Barcelona, 1975)
Tanit Plana is a photographer with a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a Master in Secondary School Teaching.
Her research and artistic production processes have received the Leonardo grant from the BBVA Foundation in 2016 and Propuestas Vegap 2021, Art for Change 2022 from the Fundación la Caixa, among others.
A retrospective of his work, with special emphasis on bringing internet infrastructures to light through the ESCALA Y FRAGMENTO project, has been on view at the Sala Canal de Isabel II in Madrid (2019). The proposal PART of contemporary movement around the violence on gestating bodies was shown at L’Auditori de Barcelona (2021) and PUBER, the exploration of adolescence and its socio-cultural practices through portraiture, at the Virreina Centre de la Imatge de Barcelona (2021).
Her relationship with the pedagogy of the image, as well as the processes of mediation triangulating body, politics and image have been a constant in her career. She is a regular collaborator of A Bao A Qu, tutor of the End of Degree Works of photography at IDEP since 2011 and professor of the Master of creative photography and new audiovisual formats at ESCAC (2023-24).
Juanan Requena (Nauchipán, 1983)
* una biografía poética – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Fueron las fotos de la tienda de campaña en mitad de Cazorla y el Seat 128 blanco, las de la Pentax, las de color Kodak, nosotros hacemos el resto, las de las carreteras y las balas de paja en los campeonatos de Rallies nacionales, la del chaval incrédulo sobre la moto de Aspar. Y al volver de cada viaje revivir la aventura otra vez: montar todos los trastos, desenredar cables, encender el proyector de diapos y escuchar el sonido cada vez que pasaba la foto. Las tardes de domingo en casa, la luz temblorosa sobre la pantalla, los recuerdos, salvar el paso del tiempo. Ya tenía el impulso, el significado de mirar. Todo eso creció dentro de mí. Años después fueron mis fugas y mis regresos, cambié de lugares y de vistas, quise ser deriva decidido a la conquista de aquella misma luz. La velada luz que siempre acompaña a los recuerdos. Entonces llegaron la primera réflex de segunda mano, los manuales básicos en una biblioteca cerca del mar, las cámaras de juguete, las Polaroids de antes y la Nikon que rescaté de la basura, los carretes baratos y de tres en tres, la espera en las puertas de las tiendas de revelado, mate por favor, 7 x 10, gracias, en menos de una hora, un curso de iniciación al laboratorio, apretar el botón sin pensar, la compañía, el disparo desde el corazón, los diarios y el sentido. Los tiempos cambiaron, crecieron las ideas nómadas y se desbordaron cada año las libretas. Pero aún hoy, todavía y como nunca, el impulso sigue siendo regresar a la calidez de aquella luz.
MICHAEL WESELY (Munic, 1963)
Michael Wesely, born in Munich in 1963, studied at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie from 1986 to 1988 and at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste
München from 1988 to 1994. With his often extremely long exposures, he captures processes that extend over periods of minutes, many hours and even years, and captures the passing of time: people standing more or less still for five minutes, plants blossoming and withering in a few days, architecture under construction for years.
In long-term projects, he has photographed the construction of several important urban structures in Munich, Berlin, São Paulo, and other cities. Since 2000, he lives and works in Berlin.