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The project is based on the search for a photographic archive of images taken by itinerant street photographers in the main cities of Spain and Colombia in the early and mid 20thcentury.
This type of photography lies somewhere between a private and collective memory, recording not only a person at a specific moment in time but also the public space and transit areas in the city. This double register, that of the passerby and the street, allows a present day analysis of the past, a step back into a particular time and space which has possibly been transformed or disappeared. The main section of the compiled archive was discovered at flea markets and secondhand shops.
Thus, the absence of an owner and the lack of an account by the person photographed place these images on the verge of imminent disappearance. They also accommodate the rewriting and fiction of new stories and encounters by means of the exploration, juxtaposition and dissolution of the photographic image itself
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Andrea C. Bácares has a Master’s Degree in Plastic Arts from the El Bosque University of Bogotá (2008) and a Master’s Degree in Artistic Production specializing in Public Art obtained at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (2012). She has held exhibitions in both Colombia and Spain and has received scholarships and awards, including the 2014 Ciudadanías Juveniles Locales (Local Youth Citizenships) Scholarship from the Gilberto Álzate Avendaño Foundation and the Mayor’s Office in Bogotá. Awarded with the first place in the Mixed Techniques category with in the framework of the conflict exhibition in High Resolution at the National Center of Historical Memory, Bogotá 2013. She has been selected in the XVI Art Públic/Universitat Pública, Valencia-Spain 2013. Selected for the SELECTA Project at the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the Kir Royal Gallery in Valencia, 2012. Finalist of the Roberto Villagraz scholarship at the Photography School Efti -Madrid, 2010. Winner of the Young Talent ICETEX Scholarship for studies abroad in 2010. Winner of the Salón de Agosto competition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bogotá in 2008.
Her work has been developed from a full concept of time and memory. Through the exploration of the photographic image of family albums, develops works that revolve around the reconstruction of the past, memories and lost stories.
For her, the house, a ride, the street, a family album photograph, a newspaper clipping, a sound, an aroma, they are part of a living historical narrative and, therefore, likely to be designated as an artistic object.
