URBAN TATOO. La città ti parla.
By Fotolateras
26-31th january. Artefiera
Bologna . Bologna OFF
c/o
body bag. Palazzo Bentivoglio.
Via delle Moline 1b
40126 Bologna
Like city lovers, we feel our
house doesn’t end when we close the door, the house extends its arms through
the streets and avenues, districts or why not the rest of the city.
When we travel we make
lanscapes part of ourselves. Until
that moment unknown lanscapes that talk to us and for a moment let us be part
of them.
This wild territory, humanized by
society and on the other hand, made wild again by us, is the modern city where
we live.
The city recieves our messages
and sends out its own. Using symbols, signs, neons, graffity, engraved stones,
the city warns us about danger, it keeps us organizad and even indoctrinates
us.
But like the old friend she is,
she shows us her seriously wounded skin when people are suffering, opening her
arms and giving her soul to the people so they can express themselves, protest,
claim and send out their wishes.
The walls of a city are its skin.
When you write on it you are tatooing it, you are marking it and in someway you
are making it yours.
We are Lola Barcia Albacar and
Marinela Forcadell Breva, also know us Fotolateras.
Passionate pinhole photographers.
We travel with our cameras, made from tins, tinning the World.
In a seren and calm way we take
images of lively and bussy cities. Our technique enables us to see a new city
as a new friend that wants to comunicate with us using signs.
For this reason we feel atracted
by her messages: posters, signs, graffiti, neons, flags, banners,… all of them
memory banks, some of them strong and durable, others so ephemeral and
changing. Only photography can manage to retain the memory.
With this exhibition we don’t
only show a phisical journey but also a jouney through time. Starting with the
engraved stones of Pompey and Compostela through to New York graffities, trying
as a result to show how cities comunicate with us and dont’t fall into
obscurity.
Lola Barcia Albacar
Marinela Forcadell Breva
Fotolateras
