Exhibition of various artists at Freijó Gallery

Famous and anonymous. Portraits

Using different techniques, from traditional silver gelatin to photocopy, we present a journey through the world of (self)portraits throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, by the following authors: Antoni Abad, Ana Laura Aláez, Ana Arabaolaza, Ximena Bares, Cecil Beaton, Philippe Bonan, Marcelo Brodsky, Daniel Canogar, Toni Catany, Nieves Correa, Matias Costa, Dmitri Kessel, Gisèle Freund , Alberto García-Alix, Mathias Goeritz, Marisa González, José Antonio Hernández Díez, Concha Jerez, Álvaro Laiz, Ramón Mateos, Leo Matiz, Aldo Palazzi, Armando Salas Portugal, Santiago Sierra, Darío Villalba and André Villers.

This selection of works brings together the modern and the contemporary, the European and the Latin American, the unknown and the familiar. Anonymity has played an important role in photography since its beginnings, immortalizing shadows, silhouettes and faces of unknown, anonymous people, which contrasts with the overpresence of the self in the media in the current digital age, where selfies , with their respective names and surnames, have invaded the landscape of the 21st century, an aspect that has not gone unnoticed by contemporary artists such as the well-known Amalia Ulman with her appropriation of selfie culture on Instagram.