TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes inaugurates the XVIII International Photography Biennial Fotonoviembre

The TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes museum inaugurated the eighteenth version of the Fotonoviembre International Photography Biennial final Thursday, November thirteenth. This competition has established itself through the years as a number one occasion for selling pictures, not solely within the Canary Islands but in addition internationally. The biennial has turn into an area for dialogue and reflection on the various prospects of up to date pictures, providing guests an expertise that mixes aesthetic sensibility with a essential understanding of the picture.

Under the title The Vertigo of Images , the exhibition, curated by Marta Dahó Masdemont, will be visited till February 22 and brings collectively the work of an in depth choice of artists that features each historic references and modern creators. Among them are names similar to Teresa Arozena, Ismaïl Bahri, Eline Benjaminsen and Dayna Casey, Bleda y Rosa, Patricia Dauder, Erik Estany Tigerström, Max de Esteban, Carla Filipe, Lee Friedlander, Marina Gadonneix, Paul Graham, Guido Guidi, Linarejos Moreno, Man Ray, Joana Moll, Pilar Monsell, Julia Montilla, Silvia Navarro Martín, Mabel Palacín, Joel Peláez Amador, Pérez y Requena, Aleix Plademunt, Lúcia Prancha, Xavier Ribas, Lotty Rosenfeld, Laia Serra Cribillers, Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel, Damián Ucieda, Oriol Vilapuig, Werker Collective and Tobias Zielony.

The biennial invitations the general public to discover an area that examines pictures’s capability to generate feelings, problem perceptions, and mirror the complexity of the modern world. According to curator Marta Dahó Masdemont, the exhibition additionally goals to reclaim the essential potential of photographs. “Photographs not only capture moments, but they also have the capacity to question the norm, raise questions, and disrupt what is taken for granted,” defined Dahó, emphasizing that the challenge aligns with the concepts of thinker Andrea Soto Calderón, who highlights the performative and productive energy of photographs, able to opening new prospects in each thought and creativeness.

• Roberto Casañas Afonso, Jesús Yagüe Suárez, Jesús Acosta Casañas. From the Roferas collection. First prize within the collection class.

In this context, the biennial pays particular consideration to the processes that form photographs, understood as instruments for producing variety within the face of prevailing narratives. “This approach is essential to counteract the imposition of visions that tend to move in a single direction,” the curator concluded, emphasizing the significance of pictures as a medium that not solely displays actuality however also can rework it and broaden our understanding of it.

With this new version, Fotonoviembre reaffirms its dedication to the essential exploration of the picture and consolidates TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes as a benchmark area for worldwide pictures, providing guests a journey that mixes aesthetic sensitivity, social reflection and the invention of latest views on the world round us.