Marta Povo. La poètica de la llum

The exhibition presents a comprehensive selection of the artistic and commissioned work of Marta Povo Audenis (Barcelona 1951), a Catalan photographer who, in the 1970s and 1980s, developed a dazzling and prolific professional career centred on architecture, interior design and landscape photography, a world still dominated at that time mostly by men, with a few isolated female figures who stood out, as she did.At the same time as her professional work was increasingly recognised, she developed an artistic practice with a strong personality. MARTA POVO. LA POÈTICA DE LA LLUM offers an immersion into the visual universe of an author for whom photography is a form of sensitive and intuitive knowledge. Far from being a chronological journey, based on a hundred original prints, the show proposes a journey through layers of meaning and presence, in which the images unfold grouped by visual affinity and aesthetic tensions. Indispensable in photographic technology, light becomes the axis of the exhibition, with the aim of acclaiming it as a creative principle that envelops us and invites us to embrace a shared gaze on all the subjects and photographs.In Marta Povo's work, light is both matter and metaphor, the key to understanding what is seen, but also what is suggested, that which is essential and often remains invisible to the eye. The selection presented by the AFB suggests this dialectic between the visible world and the author's inner world, between photography as document and photography as visual poem, proposing an in-depth reading of her work, which is held at the AFB.