The XXIII edition of “PHotoESPAÑA,” which started in 2020 with a call for photos of the Spanish lockdown and with open-air exhibitions in 50 Spanish cities, is now moving to Albuquerque.
During the 2020 stay home order in Spain, PHotoESPAÑA launched a call for participation that registered more than 60,000 images on Instagram and opened the 23rd edition of the Festival with exhibitions in 50 Spanish cities. Now, after being shown in Washington, D.C., Albuquerque joins this project thanks to the collaboration of the National Hispanic Cultural Center, the Instituto Cervantes of Albuquerque, and the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Washington, D.C.
The exceptional situation around the world caused by the current health crisis has prompted substantial changes in all areas of our lives, including the way we live and interact, and the Festival is not an exception. Knowing the role that balconies and windows were playing during the...days of lockdown, PHotoESPAÑA launched a call for participation during this period in Spain with the initiative #PHEdesdemibalcón, an appeal to citizens’ creativity and artistic exploration announced through social media. Anyone was invited to use a photograph to share how they saw life via their balcony during the times of pandemic.
Windows and balconies have been perennial themes in art history and have repeatedly been used in artistic representation, as shown by works like Woman at a Window by Caspar David Friedrich, Figure in a Window by Salvador Dalí, Woman Seated before the Window by Pablo Picasso, Open Window by Henri Matisse and Cape Cod Morning by Edward Hopper.
In photography, too, there are countless works by authors who have reflected on indoor and outdoor space, from the very first photograph Point de vue du Gras that Nicéphore Niépce took from the window of his home in 1826, to more recent works like Maria, New York by Lee Friedlander, Love by Adriana Lestido, The Models by Alessandra Sanguinetti, The Bedroom by Sarah Jones and At the End of the Hallway by Alberto García Alix, among so many others.
Here, and in our everyday lives, windows and balconies serve to separate the interior (and personal) space from the outside world. Through them, we discover the reality outside, turning us into voyeurs of everyday scenes, yet they are also a source of yearning and freedom. Windows, balconies, terraces, buildings… a reflection of our society that goes beyond our own personal space.
ABOUT PHOTOESPAÑA
PHotoESPAÑA (PHE) was born in 1998 with the intention of developing a festival rooted in society. Supported by the Fundación Contemporánea and organised by La Fábrica, PHotoESPAÑA has put Madrid and Spain at the center of the world of photography with a yearly meeting of the highest order. From that 16th of June in 1998 to date, thousands of photographers, creators, artists, curators, museum directors, editors, heads of foundations, companies sensitive to culture, journalists, cultural managers, laboratories, photography schools, volunteers, politicians and, naturally, spectators, have set the foundations for a modern festival, open to new audiences, rigorous in its approach, ambitious in its objectives, and capable of covering as ample a spectrum of interests as might prove necessary.
Since its inception, PHE has had a decidedly international vision. As well as on strictly local values, it has focused both on grand concepts and vast artistic territories: Europe, North America, Latin America, the Far East. This vision has been upheld and developed by the curators and directors that every three years have been put in charge of the program.
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