foto colectania: albarrán cabrera

“Pho­tog­ra­phy helps us un­der­stand re­al­i­ty, the im­ages are like vi­su­al an­no­ta­tions in a notebook”
 

Án­gel Al­bar­rán and Anna Cabr­era have been work­ing col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly as pho­tog­ra­phers since 1996. 

 

In­flu­enced by both West­ern and East­ern thinkers and artists, they use the pho­to­graph­ic medi­um to ques­tion pre­con­ceived ideas about time, space and identity. 

 

Their work achieves a new no­tion of per­cep­tion as a key el­e­ment in un­der­stand­ing not only art but life ex­pe­ri­ence itself.

 

 

 

Their po­et­ic uni­verse in­vites us to a dream­like journey. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The be­gin­ning of a bird’s flight caught be­tween the hol­lows of the thick­et, glides on the smooth sur­face of the wa­ter, feath­ers of pearly black or of a snow like white, sparkling of vel­vety petals …

 

 

Their im­ages, be­tween re­al­i­ty and il­lu­sion, in­ves­ti­gate our re­la­tion­ship with a tan­gi­ble world. Time, mem­o­ry and an al­most phys­i­cal pres­ence of beau­ty run through their work.

To achieve this, Al­bar­rán Cabr­era em­ploy mul­ti­ple pho­to­graph­ic pro­ce­dures: Platinum/palladium, sil­ver gelatin, cyan­otype, pig­ment­ed print­ing, etc., which give their im­ages a spe­cial tex­ture and adds unique­ness to their art: 

“We un­der­stand pho­tog­ra­phy as an ob­ject, and the pho­to­graph­ic medi­um as a tool that al­lows us to trav­el from con­cept to im­age and fi­nal­ly to a spe­cif­ic ob­ject. We do not want the im­age to re­pro­duce re­al­i­ty, but we try to cre­ate an ob­ject that has enough in­for­ma­tion and in­ter­est to be­come part of the nar­ra­tives of see­ing. That is where each process with its spe­cif­ic char­ac­ter­is­tics may cre­ate a re­al­i­ty with its own style”
 

 

 

Their ex­hi­bi­tion is cur­rent­ly on show in Barcelona at Fun­dación Foto Colecta­nia thru 7 Jan­u­ary 2024.

 

—juli­ja svetlova

Flom­mist Juli­ja Svet­lo­va is an art his­to­ri­an, free­lance re­searcher and a founder of Neja’s Art Walks, a be­spoke provider of art and his­to­ry-re­lat­ed tours and ex­pe­ri­ences in Lon­don. Juli­ja pre­vi­ous­ly worked as a col­lec­tion re­search as­sis­tant at the Tate. Copy­right © 2023 Juli­ja Svet­lo­va, im­ages © Al­bar­rán Cabr­era, top im­age cropped.

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