Tarragona Catalunya Campus CRAI campus Catalunya
08:30 h
Exhibition by the Aula d’Art de la URV. A photographic compilation by visual artist Lluc Queralt.
For more than twenty years, Lluc Queralt has collected anonymous photographs. He has kept them not to preserve the past, but to activate it. Because an image is not only what it shows, but also what we attribute to it. Its meaning is not fixed; it moves with us.
Queralt assigns the found photographs the names of renowned photographers, both classical and contemporary: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Diane Arbus, Jacques Henri Lartigue. Names that carry weight, history, authority. Yet the images do not belong to them.
Many of these images are copies from the same period or from years close to those of the authors to whom Queralt attributes them. Photographs taken with similar light, with a comparable visual architecture. Composition, gesture, space: everything seems to converse with the name that accompanies them. This proximity is not accidental, but neither is it definitive. It is enough to make us doubt.
The name does not merely accompany the photograph: it transforms it. When we read a name, we see differently. When we believe we know who is behind an image, we interpret it with a confidence that may not be ours to claim. This exhibition is therefore a classic proposal-photographs on paper, found images-but with a contemporary line of reasoning: to question authorship, legitimacy, and value. At a time when images circulate without a clear origin or destination, these works insist on making us responsible for our gaze.
You can visit from May 19 to June 5 at CRAI campus Catalunya.
