Arxiu anònimes

Marta Fàbregas Curated by Marc Vidal The exhibition starts from a critical review of a social imaginary built from the patriarchal gaze. Through archive photographs, transferred images, incomplete fragments and latent presences, artist Marta Fàbregas questions the way many anonymous women have been represented, or erased, over time. Images appear as open windows onto a frozen memory. But here, memory is not contemplated passively: it is interrogated, scratched, displaced and made to emerge again. The gesture of transfer, the rupture of the image and its material fragility become a tool of critical thought. What seemed stable, domestic or innocent reveals a deep structure of silences, assignments and symbolic violence. The exhibition proposes a feminist rereading of inherited images and of the social imaginaries that have defined what a woman had to be, what place she had to occupy and what tasks she had to sustain. In this process, the act of looking becomes an act of recovering bodies, voices, gestures and possibilities that were left out of the official story. "Arxiu anònimes" does not seek to restore the past, but to intervene in it, open its cracks, scratch its surface. To make visible what had remained stuck to silence. As part of 39/11 Novembre fotogràfic, the photography festival of Fotoconnexió.