In this Screen Walk Joan Fontcuberta unveiled a post-photographic practice to adopt when images dematerialize. Digital technology, the Internet, mobile phones and social networks lead us to a new scenario of visual saturation and the frenzied circulation of images. Mourning for lost materiality leads us to vindicate the terrible beauty of wounds and scars, traumas, the blows that life has inflicted on images. How to cling to what remains of the object in the photograph? Maybe eating it. If the photograph can be eaten, it is because it still has material substance. So let's praise "photophagy"!

Biography

For five decades of prolific dedication to photography, Joan Fontcuberta (Barcelona, 1955) has developed a both artistic and theoretical activity, which focuses on the conflicts between nature, technology, photography and truth. He has received solo shows at MoMA (NY, 1988), the Art Institute (Chicago, 1990), IVAM (Valencia, 1992), MNAC (Barcelona,1999), Maison Européenne de la Photographie (París, 2014), Science Museum (London, 2014), Museum Angewandte Kunst (Frankfurt, 2015), among others. Besides those institutions, his artwork has been collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), San Francisco MoMA, National Gallery of Art (Ottawa), Folkwang Museum (Essen), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), MACBA (Barcelona), MNCARS (Madrid) and others. He has authored a dozen of books about aspects of history, aesthetics and epistemology of photography. In 2013 he received the Hasselblad Award International Prize and in 2020 was entitled Doctor Honoris Causa by the Université Paris VIII.