"Semantic Exhumations", talk by Alejandro Castellote

• Thursday 15 March, 6 pm
• EINA
• Open to the public

The talk on "Semantic Exhumations", by Alejandro Castellote, will be given as part of the Postgraduate Diploma in Photography and Editorial Design.

In recent years, a category has emerged that we could call forensic artists. It refers to the uses that are being made of archives, family albums and those untidy and amorphous collections that include images loaned to the internet, iconographic materials, documentary materials, cartographic materials, etc. Included here are artists who carry out semantic exhumations based on this huge volume of inert documents that are accumulated without any expectation of being used. They disinter cadavers, i.e. albums and archives filled with no signs of life, to investigate them or compose with them an alternative semantic to the one they had in life.

The photo books that will be displayed come primarily from Asia and Latin America.

Alejandro Castellote (Madrid, 1959), a photography curator since 1982, has curated a great many national and international festivals and exhibitions, including the PHotoEspaña International Photography Exhibition, C on Cities at the Padiglione Italia at the Tenth Architecture Biennale in Venice, the GETXOPHOTO Festival in Getxo, Bilbao, Biennal Photoquai in Paris, the Road to Spain at SEOUL PHOTO 2010 and Daegu Photo Biennale in South Korea.

He has also worked for Editorial Lunwerg and was advisor to the C Photo Magazine by Ivory Press, London. At an academic level, he has taught classes and workshops in universities and schools and he has run the Latin American Master’s in Contemporary Photography at the Image Centre in Lima.

He is presently guest curator of the Image Triennial 2017, Guangzhou, China.