Man Ray, Colita, and Maya Mercer headline the Incadaqués images competition.

BarcelonaThe photographer Man Ray found Cadaqués in 1933 following an invite from Marcel Duchamp, who was staying with a good friend, the bookbinder Mary Reynolds. It was then that Duchamp advised to Man Ray, who was already a number one determine among the many Surrealists, that he {photograph} a number of modernist homes for example Salvador Dalí’s article. From the terrifying magnificence to the edible of contemporary’fashion structurewithin the journalMinotaurMan Ray maintained his relationship with Cadaqués and spent his summers there for a decade between 1958 and 1968. And now he is among the protagonists of the brand new version of Incadaqués Photography Festival, on show till October 26. Specifically, his exhibition may be seen within the gardens of the Salvador Dalí house-museum in Portlligat, with whom he later collaborated once more on works such because the painted plaster sculpture Portrait of Joella.

This yr’s Cadaqués program contains 28 exhibitions by 40 artists from 20 international locations, in museums, galleries, and different venues all through the town. Highlights embody Txema Yeste, thought-about a “master of light,” who’s displaying almost 40 works by no means earlier than seen in Spain on the Casino; Colita. Divine portraits, within the Cadaqués Museum, and Maya Mercer, by the French-American artist, on the Cadaqués gallery. Mercer is thought for her mixing of fiction and documentary with a cinematic aesthetic, and within the collection on view on the competition, titled Worship, reconstructs the lives marked by marginalization and the shadow of the opioid disaster of a bunch of youngsters. Likewise, Australian photographer Lisa Sorgini presents In-passing, a collection ensuing from the collision of two occasions that marked her: the delivery of her first little one and the lack of her mom.

In addition to Colita’s exhibition, there are two different documentary exhibitions: Were Afghan girls to unveil their tales, by Italian photographer Valentina Sinis, which portrays the “subtle gestures of resistance” of Agfanese girls, akin to working, strolling, and organizing amongst themselves (on the church of Santa Maria). And Gaza modo de emploi, a “preventive archaeology” challenge by photographer Eduardo Soteras Jalil concerning the particulars of every day life in Gaza, removed from media pictures (on the Arte y Joya Theater).

Historical avant-gardes within the twenty first century

Two of essentially the most notable names in this system are Ukrainian artist Hanna Lautreamont (1991), whose work attracts on surrealist aesthetics (at Espai Cristina), and photographer and painter Ayline Olukman, who presents works that mix photographic prints and interventions.

The competition additionally contains three exhibitions stemming from her artistic residencies within the metropolis: All the locations and the locations between, by Belgian artist Antoine de Winter (on the Patrick J. Domken gallery), and people by Cloé Harent (on the Santa Rita gallery) and Julien Mignot (within the atrium of the Santa Maria church).

Furthermore, one of many distinctive options of the competition is that it organizes underwater exhibitions within the city’s bay, with the goal of making an expertise the place artwork and nature of the marine surroundings converge. The three chosen artists are Txema Yeste, China’s Jinyong Lian, and JA Young, winner of the Open Doors Photo Prize 2025.