Joan Fontcuberta
Joan Fontcuberta (Barcelona, 1955), photographer, conceptual artist, teacher, essayist, critic and art promoter specialized in photography. Fontcuberta is one of the most internationally renowned Catalan photographers. He also works as a theorist of the photographic image and as a photographic editor, promoting contemporary photography through numerous events, conferences and exhibitions. He was one of the founders of PhotoVision magazine (1980), a bilingual publication in Spanish and English specializing in photography. Both his theoretical and photographic works question the assumed truth of photographic images. His multifaceted artistic production revolves around the verisimilitude of the image and its capacity to represent and supplant the real world. He is interested in the social function of photography, the public use of the image and the intoxication of information. Many of his works are constructed as parodies that activate the viewer’s illusion, warning him of the danger of disbelief and of the fallacious mechanisms in the public transmission of information and knowledge.
Programme
LLIÇONS DE COSES: LA FOTOGRAFIA QUE ENS REVELA / ES REBEL·LA
From 19 to 23 May 2025
(click here to get the programme in pdf)
LECTURES
- Gramàtiques de l’anomalia
- De les orquídies i els macarrons
- Biologia marina: Sirenes i coralls
- Quan la censura és bella
- Arcàdia analògica i basar digital
The sessions will be held in Catalan in the Sala de Graus of the Faculty of Letters of the UdG, from Monday to Friday at 16.00h.
Registration
Registration is free of charge, but places must be reserved by e-mail at dir.cfm@udg.edu
Other activities
Joan Fontcuberta will give a lecture open to all citizens, which will take place on Thursday, 22 May, at 6.30 p.m., at the La Mercè Cultural Centre in Girona, and will be entitled “Fotografia: de l’alquimia a l’algoritme”.
Admission is free but registration is required here.
Invited specialists
Will also participate in the sessions Prof. Íngrid Guardiola (UdG) and Xavier Antich (UdG), and Joan Boadas (archivist and chronicler of the city of Girona), all three specialists on Joan Fontcuberta’s work and invited to participate in the seminar as he requested himself.