Un elefant al jardí

The Sala d'Exposicions in Barcelona is hosting the photography exhibition Un elefant al jardí, by the artist Sylvie Bussières and curated by Mercè Alsina.

This proposal is built around a snapshot from the Leopoldo Plasencia archive in which a woman feeds an elephant, a singular scene preserved in the Arxiu Fotogràfic de Barcelona that serves the artist as her starting point. The visit offers a visual journey based on the analogue black-and-white photographic material that Plasencia captured in the municipal green spaces between the 1950s and 1970s.

As visitors move through the rooms, they watch the artist intervene directly on the original photographs to alter the outlines of the floral elements, giving them relief and turning the static snapshots into dynamic compositions. The project forms part of proposals that revisit photographic archives as spaces of memory and contemporary creation, raising a reflection on vulnerability and change in nature.

The exhibition is designed for those interested in heritage photography and the dialogues between the historical document and the present-day gaze. The works on show link the documentary past with a new visual imagination through this display.