The 19th International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts takes place this summer and runs until 28 August. Following its opening at the beginning of June, ±Ê±á´Ç³Ù´Ç·¡²õ±è²¹Ã±²¹ continues to host a wealth of exhibitions and associated events across the city of Madrid. This year, the festival returns to celebrate emerging and historical photographic practices from Spain and Latin-American, alongside a new focus on work developing on the European continent.
Organised byÌý, ±Ê±á´Ç³Ù´Ç·¡²õ±è²¹Ã±²¹ has become a central international forum for photography since its founding in 1998. Each year the festival attracts over 700,000 attendees and receives acclaim from prestigious critics, making it a popular cultural event in Spain.ÌýIn 2016, the event welcomes a series of exhibitions commissioned by a range of specialists which seek to analyse the very concept of Europe; what it is, what it has been and how the continent as a whole is configured in social, geographic, political, economic or creative terms.
The line-up for the 19th edition includes solo shows of work by French photographerÌýBernard Plossu and Spanish photographerÌýLinarejos Moreno; group exhibitionÌýTransicionesÌý(Transitions), which features projects by Chris Killip,ÌýJean Marc Bustamente,ÌýCandida HöferÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýBoris Mikhaelov that focus on the tensions generated on the continent in the period between 1979-1989; and ²Ñ¾±²µ°ù²¹³¦¾±´Ç²Ô±ð²õÌý(Migrations), a presentation on migratory movements that unites pieces from the Musée Nicéphore Niépce Collection with work byÌýPeter Knapp,ÌýMathieu Pernot,ÌýAntoine d’AgataÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýJohn Batho.
Recognition is also offered to key female practitioners and lesser-known figures of the 20th century in a series of dedicated displays: Vivian Maier, Street Photographer at Fundación Canal; Lucia Moholy, A Hundred Years Later at Loewe Gran VÃa; Louise Dahl-Wolfe, A Style of her own at CÃrculo de Bellas Artes / Sala Goya; and Juana Biarnés,ÌýAgainst the current at Teatro Fernán Gómez, Centro Cultural de la Villa. Elsewhere, survey shows highlight prominent moments and themes in the medium’s historyÌýsuch asÌýIntimate cartographies, an approach to interpersonal relationships at Casa de América and Faces. Portrait Photography in Europe since 1990 at CentroCentro Cibeles.
±Ê±á´Ç³Ù´Ç·¡²õ±è²¹Ã±²¹ 2016, until 28 August. Venues across Madrid.
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Credits
1.ÌýLouise Dahl-Wolfe, Gemelas en la playa. Nasáu, Bahamas, 1949 © Louise Dahl-Wolfe, 1989 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents CortesÃa de Staley-Wise Gallery, New York.
