Arxiu anònimes

Photography exhibition by Marta Fàbregas, curated by Marc Vidal, which revisits how the patriarchal gaze has represented or erased anonymous women through archive images and photographic transfers.

The exhibition brings together the work of Marta Fàbregas around a critical rereading of a social imagery shaped from a patriarchal perspective. The works are based on archive photographs, transferred images, incomplete fragments and barely suggested presences, in which many anonymous women appear whom history either represented or left out of the story.

The ensemble proposes a feminist reading of the inherited images and of the roles assigned to women: what they were meant to be, what place they were to occupy and what tasks they were expected to sustain. The gesture of transferring, breaking and wearing down the image works here as a tool of critical thought, so that what seemed stable, domestic or innocent reveals silences, assignments and symbolic violence.

The approach does not aim to restore the past, but to intervene in it and open up its fissures. Looking becomes a way of recovering bodies, voices, gestures and possibilities that were left outside the official narrative. The exhibition is part of the Fotoconnexió photography festival and is presented at the Centre Cultural La Casa Elizalde in Barcelona.