26.FEB.2021 - 23.MAY.2021
The Centro de FotografÃa KBr Fundación MAPFRE in Barcelona, begins its program of the year with a retrospective of the photographer Claudia Andujar. The exhibition, with an exhibition tour organized around eight sections, brings together around two hundred photographs and a series of drawings made by members of the Yanomami people, as well as books, audiovisual projections and documents that explore the extraordinary contribution of the artist to the environment. The artist has used her work as a way of knowing and committing to the world that surrounds her and also as a way of knowing the other and, in that way, knowing herself.
In Claudia Andujar's photographic proposal, the intimacy that she is capable of generating with the subjects and the motifs represented is combined with the frequent use of experimental language, thus generating a unique encounter between art and activism that has been widely recognized for years. international.
Through a style that combines an intimate look at the subjects represented with an experimental approach that combines art and commitment, Andujar has transformed the protection and defense of the Yanomami, one of the largest and most threatened indigenous groups in Brazil, into a mission of life.
Claudia Andujar (Neuchâtel - Suiza, 1931) grew up in Transylvania in the bosom of a family of Protestant origin - on his mother's side - and Jewish - on his father's side. The paternal family dies in the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Dachau. She managed to escape with her mother and in 1946 they arrived in New York. An admirer of the French-Russian painter Nicolas de Staël, in the city of skyscrapers she explored abstract painting, while working as a guide at the United Nations. After a first trip to Brazil in 1955, followed by others, he decided to settle in São Paulo, where photography gave him a way to communicate and relate to the population of his new adopted country.
Little by little he developed a work focused on the most vulnerable communities, a process that led to his first contact with the Yanomami in 1971, while he was working on an article for Realidade magazine. During these years, the Brazilian military dictatorship launched a program to exploit the Amazon region, which entailed a social breakdown with devastating consequences for this people, as well as the spread of various diseases.
Del 26 de febrero al 23 de mayo de 2021
Martes a domingo (y festivos) de 11 a 20:00h.