KINDERWUNSCHANA CASAS BRODA
09/02/2018 - 09/03/2018
After several international venues, the exhibition KINDERWUNSCH is presented for the first time in Mexico in the museum of the Regional City of Querétaro as part of the festival ENFOQUE.
Kinderwunsch is a book where text and photos construct a narrative that explores the complexity of the experience of motherhood. Its backbone is this constantly changing fabric of the relationships between my children and myself in the process of becoming a mother and the construction of their identity.
As in my previous works, the body and the house are fundamental axes of the project. Kinderwunsch has been going on for seven years and has become an increasingly complex project. We build scenarios in which actions take place. Sometimes they were my children's ideas, sometimes they were images from my fantasies.
The photo depends on the action and is always a discovery. I am interested in working with experiences from the frontier between the everyday and the actions that are performed for the camera. Photography as a vital form of intervention in reality, the tension between recreated action and spontaneity as a space that reveals essential aspects of relationships.
Photography as a search for apparitions of a reality that is not always visible. I am fascinated by the threshold between reality and its image in which photography moves, that enigmatic space that eludes interpretation, unique to each viewer.
ABOUT ANA CASAS BRODA
(SPAIN | MEXICO 1965), has lived in Mexico since 1974. He studied Visual Arts, History and Photography in Mexico, Spain, Austria and the United States. Since 1983 he has had numerous solo exhibitions in Mexico and abroad. Member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores FONCA 2008-2011. Published two photobooks: Álbum, published by Mestizo, Spain, 2000; and Kinderwunsch, published by La Fábrica, 2013, winner of the Best Art Book Award by the Spanish Ministry of Art, Culture and Sport in 2014. Álbum was presented as a solo exhibition at Centro de la Imagen, Mexico, in 2001-2002, at Casa de América, PHotoEspaña festival 2002, and at several other international venues. Kinderwunsch opened at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, PHotoEspaña festival 2015, and was later presented at FOTOHOF, Salzbugo, Austria, 2016, at the Museo Regional de Querétaro, Mexico, 2017 and at the Museo de la Ciudad de México, 2019. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions and publications, including HOMETRUTHS, book and exhibition curated by Susan Bright, presented at Photographers Gallery, London, UK, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, 2015, Belfast Exposed, festival in Ireland, 2015.Since 1990 she has been organising activities on photography, educational programmes, meetings, festivals, etc. He was assistant to Manuel Álvarez Bravo in 1986.
She has worked at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid - from 1989 to 1993 -, in 1994 she founded the Education area of Centro de la Imagen, where she worked until 1998, from 2000 to 2006 she was coordinator of program FotoGuanajuato, program of studies and festival organised by the Instituto de Cultura de Guanajuato and Centro de la Imagen, from 2007 to 2015 she coordinates the Seminario de Fotografía Contemporánea of Centro de la Imagen with the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín. In 2012 she founded Hydra + Fotografía with Gabriela González Reyes and Gerardo Montiel Klint- As co-curator with Gisela Volá she created "Borrador de un cuerpo intervenido" Arte x Arte, Buenos Aires Argentina, 2017, Hydra x FOAM, Netherlands 2017, among many others. She is co-organiser of the Photobook Fair and the Latin American Photobook Award 2017 at the FotoMuseo Cuatro Caminos in the framework of the Latin American Photography Colloquium. He is a juror for various competitions and grants such as Sistema Nacional de Creadores y Jóvenes Creadores, FONCA, 6x6 Global Talent World Press Photo, Photo Vogue, among many others. In 2016 he created INCUBADORA DE FOTOLIBROS, a program where authors develop their photobooks with the advice of national and foreign editors and designers. In 2018 he founded INFRAMUNDO, a publishing project of Hydra, with José Luis Lugo and Ramon Pez, which in 2018 published 24 photobooks and were presented at international fairs.
PRESS ABOUT KINDERWUNSCH
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KINDERWUNSCH PHOTOBOOK
Meet the photobook Kinderwunsch that builds a narrative between texts and a narrative.PRIZE for the best Art book of the year 2014 by the Ministry of Culture, Art and Sport in Spain.