Exhibitions
Madrid, 14 million eyes, 162 photographs and 15 photobooks
Domus Artium 2002, in Salamanca, is opening the exhibition "14 Million Eyes: Photographic Collection, Public ," which runs from March to September of this year. The exhibition offers a journey through the photographic collection of the Community of Madrid, housed at the CA2M (Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo), and prompts reflection on its development, its public dimension, and its role in the institutionalization of the medium.
Curated by Olga Fernández López, the exhibition traces the history of the collection's formation through 162 photographs and fifteen photobooks, revealing that its configuration does not follow a single logic, but rather a process in which multiple factors, agents, and policies have converged. From this complexity, the exhibition poses key questions: What story would the collection tell if it could speak? What would it say about those who made it possible or about the audiences who have viewed it?
Manuel Sendón, Untitled (Series: Paisaxes), 1989-1991. CA2M Museum Collection.
The exhibition brings together works by more than a hundred famous photographers – Ramón Masats, Alberto García-Alix, Cristina García Rodero, Javier Vallhonrat, Carmela García, Bleda y Rosa or Tanit Plana, among others – which, through the image, is articulated in four axes; Madrid, Spanish photography in the nineties, the questioning of the medium and the bodies that inhabit it.
One of the most noteworthy aspects of the exhibition is that the formation of the Community of Madrid's collection is not solely the result of acquisitions, but rather has been shaped through a dialogue with a series of diverse public policies on photography. Developed over more than thirty years, these policies have contributed both to the collection's preservation as a heritage and to the dissemination and consolidation of the medium.
Pilar Pequeño, Euphorbia (Series: Wildflowers), 2000. CA2M Museum Collection.
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