It will be given by Noelia Pérez Sández, historian of photography and member of the University of Barcelona and the Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia. The photo talk will take place on Tuesday, April 7 at 6:30 p.m., at the Pati Llimona.

It will discuss how history can be explained through photography, based on a historical memory project that was born from the study of photographers Kati Horma and Margaret Michaelis during the Civil War.

This conference aims to address the process of constructing the book Defeat as a poetic-historiographic exercise that questions the official way of writing the history of photography.

Based on photographs taken by Kati Horna and Margaret Michaelis during the Spanish Civil War, the talk proposes to consider photographic events as clots of time, affection and conflict that resist linear and canonical narration. From

fragmented, displaced and subaltern productions, it is considered how to construct stories of photography that do not reproduce the violence of a single, patriarchal and monumental genealogy, but rather respond to the remains, silences and material conditions of the images.

Visual essay and poetic writing appear here not as accessories but as critical strategies that allow activating a workers’ memory of photography in the context of the Spanish state, assuming defeat not as failure, but as a position from which to write against the epic, progress and the closure of historical meaning.

We look forward to seeing you!