"ON QUAN QUI?" 5 Cities 5 Photographers

From 2 to 26 February Valid Photo BCN Gallery presented On quan qui?, a group exhibition about the relationship of 5 photographers and 5 cities.

Barcelona - Ariadna Arnés
Los Angeles - Jordi Canosa
Riyadh - Roger Grasas
Tokio - César Ordóñez
Miami - Álvaro Sánchez-Montañés

Marc Augé, French anthropologist, coined the term "non-place"to refer to places of transit are not important enough to be considered as "places. "

Are spaces of convergence, anonymous. Just allow a furtive exchange of glances between people who never will find, in the solitude of the non-places can feel for a moment, freed from the burden of relations humanas.Los places and new urban areas allow us to define new forms of life and time of loneliness and isolation.

From 2 to 26 February, Valid Photo Gallery BCN presents ON QUAN QUI?, a group show with 5 photographers offer a stark and sometimes cynical view of these non-places. Public spaces that trap us and make us anonymous figures.

This reflected with great technical mastery and aesthetic, turning nondescript places in a maze of questions.

Venue: Valid Foto BCN gallery. C/ Buenaventura Muñoz, 6. 08018 - Barcelona.

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CÉSAR ORDÓÑEZ

César Ordóñez. (Barcelona, 1964). His work is focused on the human condition, the beauty of existence and its fragility. Exploring how our thoughts and attitudes influence our environment, and vice versa. With a vital and intimate style, his works move between the reality and the metaphor, between lived moments and dreamed ones.

Since the early 90s he combined the growth of his artistic career, with the work as a fashion and advertising photographer, and his labour in the board of Spain's Professional Photographers Association (1999-2007). From 2007 (when he created "Ashimoto" series) until today, he focus his activity on projects that he mainly develops in Tokyo, his city-lab, which highlights the participation (since 2012) in Tokyo-Ga, a large international project featuring this metropolis.

He has exhibited in more than 15 countries, among them: Spain, Mexico, France, Italy, Japan, China and Russia. In art centers like UCCA (Beijing, 2009), Manege (St. Petersburg, 2011), Songwon Art Center (Seoul, 2013), Sala Canal Isabel II (Madrid, 2017) y CCEMx (Mexico City, 2019). He has held more than 15 solo exhibitions and more than 60 group ones. His works are part of the collections of Fundació Foto Colectania (Barcelona, Spain), Auer Photo Foundation (Geneva, Switzerland), Fundación Unicaja (Malaga, Spain), San Telmo Museoa (Donostia, Spain) and several private collections in Europe and America.

http://www.cesarordonez.com