ONLINE EXHIBIT: Remind Me Where I Have Never Been brings together three mid-career and established Spanish photographers. Their works explore identity issues through appearances, memories and the relationship between reality and fiction.

At different levels, the three series of works play around building a parallel story alongside reality. The blend of social documentary and staged reality in Marta Soul’s Wellhome series suggests new identity roles and different ways of looking at immigration. Paco Valverde portrays the soul of absent characters in El Capricho de lo Cotidiano (Indulgence of the Everyday Life) but, subtly, the particularities of these ordinary lives and its objects turn into a very recognizable story, almost as if we were experiencing the reminiscence of an old memory. Finally, Álvarez Yagüe uses the visual effect in Memoria Frágil (Fragile Memory) to evoke the mechanisms of our mind and how we construct (or re-construct) our own identity.

Using the everyday life as a starting point, these Spanish photographers have found a new realm in between reality and fiction. These works suggest stories that never happened but that we all have in our minds. Are these photographers simply good observers of the common place? Or is this fictional reality a new way to address our individuality?