Exhibitions
So many stories, so many questions
Max de Esteban's critical look at Foto Colectania: technology, capital and contemporary landscape. A critical reading of the present in a world defined by invisible infrastructures that shape both material reality and the collective imagination.
Foto Colectania presents So Many Stories. So Many Questions from June 5 to September 20, a monographic exhibition dedicated to the work of Max de Esteban that brings together some of his most significant series and consolidates one of his most ambitious lines of research.
The exhibition is part of the new cycle Ecology of Images , a program that, until 2027, explores the role of images in the construction of the contemporary world. Within this framework, the exhibition articulates more than fifty works —including photographs, videos and installations— that question the technological, economic and visual systems that structure today's life.
The project is part of the long-term work Aesthetics of Extinction: Infrastructures of Contemporary Capitalism , an artistic investigation that examines the invisible infrastructures that sustain power and condition perception. In this approach, infrastructures are not limited to their technical dimension, but become devices that define the imaginable and delimit the margins of social experience.
From the series 20 Red Lights, 2017 © Max de Esteban.
Among the highlighted pieces we find White Noise (2020), presented both in audiovisual format and as a photographic series, where the artist delves into the invisible systems that articulate contemporary society: data networks, automation and algorithmic decision mechanisms that operate silently but constantly.
Also prominent is 20 Red Lights (2017), a set of images that focuses on spaces linked to technological production and the architecture of advanced capitalism. They are functional and often anonymous settings that, despite their symbolic invisibility, deeply structure the collective experience.
The exhibition story is expanded with Provisional Cartography – Interview with My Mother (2023), a video in eight chapters that intertwines intimate memory and historical processes, revealing how political and economic transformations cross the personal sphere.
Capture of the video Cartografía Provisional - Interview with my Mother, 2023 © Max de Esteban.
Added to this is Fractal Landscapes (2022), an installation made with prints on silk that proposes a reading of the landscape as a material archive of human activity, where nature and intervention merge on the same surface of registration.
Finally, the Art & Investment series (2021) introduces an incisive reflection on the art market, its paradoxes and its connections with financial logic, including phenomena such as speculation or economic opacity. This line will continue in September with an urban intervention in Barcelona, where images will infiltrate public space and adopt the codes of advertising.
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