Exhibition of several artists at Freijó Gallery

Famous and Anonymous. Portraits

Using different techniques, from traditional silver gelatine to photocopying, we present a journey through the world of (self-)portraiture throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, by the following artists: 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 puts the modern in dialogue with the contemporary, the European with the Latin American, the unknown with the familiar. Anonymity takes on an important presence in photography from its beginnings, immortalising shadows, silhouettes and faces of unknown, anonymous people, which contrasts with the over-presence of the I in the media in the current digital era, where selfies and selfieswith 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 the selfie culture on Instagram.