iKBr Fundación MAPFREVila Olímpica
Sixth edition of KBr's showcase of emerging photographers from Barcelona's schools: Sara Bravo, Elena Bulet i Llopis, Meghan Mathews and Luca Gaetano Pira.
Sara Bravo built a lift, a cinema and an office out of paper, acrylic and expanded polystyrene, then photographed them so they look like adverts. That polish is the point: her series, Pink Elephant in the Room, is about the everyday violence non-binary people live with.
This is the sixth KBr Flama, the yearly show for photographers just out of four Barcelona schools, picked by a jury that included Cristina de Middel. Luca Gaetano Pira tells the life of Tania Navarro Amo, a trans activist who survived Franco's repression and marched at Barcelona's 1977 Pride, through portraits, police documents and testimony. Meghan Mathews sets photographs of her family's rural Appalachia beside her mother's letters. Elena Bulet i Llopis returns to Almayate, her grandmother's village near Málaga.
You get four first projects, each starting from the photographer's own life. A €5 ticket, free on Tuesdays, also covers Dana Lixenberg. American Images. The audio guide runs on your phone in English; headphones cost €1. Winter hours end at 19:00.
Bravo's paper sets
Lifts, cinemas and offices built from paper, acrylic and polystyrene, shot with the gloss of an advertising campaign.
Tania Navarro Amo's file
Present-day portraits of the activist next to archival photographs, police documents and recorded testimony from Franco-era Barcelona.
A mother's letters
Meghan Mathews's analogue pictures of rural Appalachia, shown alongside family archive photos and her mother's correspondence.
Almayate by flash
Elena Bulet i Llopis's flash-lit pictures of archaeological sites and family places in her grandmother's village in Málaga.
You want famous names: these are four photographers just out of Barcelona's schools.