Miserachs sense revelar
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Miserachs Undisclosed
Barcelona in two periods: the 1960s and the 1990s
Ruta de Autor presents some previously unseen works from the Xavier Miserachs Collection that the photographer chose to leave out of his publications and exhibitions, and brings them into the city’s public spaces. A tour that zooms into the Miserachs archive and unearths material that had been relatively overlooked but nonetheless sheds light on his working process and expands the images that show the transformation of the city. Through the play on memory, and by hunting for and recycling the images, we observe Barcelona as it is today.
Miserachs Undisclosed is a photography walk that straddles two periods: the contexts and the images produced in the sixties and the nineties. The tour is framed by the period of gestation of the photobook Barcelona, blanc i negre (1964), and jumps to specific shots of the city in the nineties in which there is a re-emergence of some of the recurring scenes from Miserachs’ imaginary: the Rambla, the Raval…, as well as adding new scenes from the port area. The idea is to breathe life into scenes that had been frozen by the camera. As the context changes, so do the photographs and the people. As such, we will walk through the spaces that Miserachs captured and bring to light photographs and slides that have not been developed.
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Col·lectiu Ruta de autor
Ruta de autor combines archival and historical research from a range of disciplines to investigate the city. Its walking tours through public spaces act as a conduit for bringing people together while generating critical perspectives on official narratives by peeling back the multiple layers of a city’s history from its streets, architecture and monuments. It juxtaposes the archive with the present day by recalling histories and giving new meaning to familiar places. One of its emblematic routes is Barcelona and the Indianos (2014–ongoing), which follows the lives of those who set off to make their fortune in the colonial Americas in the 19th century and examines their impact on the city upon their return. In 2019 Ruta de autor organised Green Flag, a route and exhibition which explored the impact of a water treatment plant and the rerouting of the River Llobregat.
Ruta de autor are Aymara Arreaza R. and Lorena Bou Linhares, who pool their rich backgrounds in comparative literature, visual cultures and critical theory. Green Flag (2019) was presented in and around the Centre Cívic Jardins de la Pau, El Prat de Llobregat, with /UNZIP Arts Visuals. Their recent routes include Calippos of the World, with Larre (2020); Barcelona and America Tour: A Cartography of the Colonial Narrative (1835–1888), with MACBA (2019), and The Port ‘in Sekula Saeculorum’, with the Fundació Tàpies and The Green Parrot (2017).
More information: rutadeautor.com
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Ruta de autor are Aymara Arreaza R. and Lorena Bou Linhares, who pool their rich backgrounds in comparative literature, visual cultures and critical theory. Green Flag (2019) was presented in and around the Centre Cívic Jardins de la Pau, El Prat de Llobregat, with /UNZIP Arts Visuals. Their recent routes include Calippos of the World, with Larre (2020); Barcelona and America Tour: A Cartography of the Colonial Narrative (1835–1888), with MACBA (2019), and The Port ‘in Sekula Saeculorum’, with the Fundació Tàpies and The Green Parrot (2017).
More information: rutadeautor.com
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