Un elefant al jardí, de Sylvie Bussières

An Elephant in the Garden takes as its starting point an image from the background of Leopoldo Plasencia, held in the Arxiu Fotogràfic de Barcelona, in which an elephant stretches its trunk to reach the peanuts offered by a woman. This unusual scene, charged with a poetic absurdity, inspires Sylvie Bussières to develop a project around floral elements, which advocates the contemplation of nature, moments of stillness and latent movement.Bussières works with the photographic corpus that Plasencia produced for Barcelona's municipal parks and gardens between 1950 and 1970, a rigorous documentation of the plant richness of these spaces. Over his black-and-white analogue photographs, the artist intervenes in the contours of the floral elements, gives them depth and frees them from their formal limits, transforming the fixed images into dynamic forms. The new works thus connect past and present and evoke the vulnerability, change and unpredictability of nature.The exhibition is part of the Panoràmic Arxius section of the Panoràmic Festival, dedicated to the revision and re-reading of photographic archives as spaces of memory, interpretation and contemporary creation. Curated by Mercè Alsina, this proposal invites artists to investigate and develop new projects from different photographic collections and archives, generating new narratives and perspectives on the past. Panoràmic Arxius thus opens a dialogue between document and imagination, between history and the present, enhancing the archive as a living territory in constant transformation.