Bleda and Rosa KBr Fundación MAPFRE - Barcelona Photo Center

María Bleda and José María Rosa are among the artists of their generation who have tackled, in detail, the complexities surrounding the notion of landscape in the field of contemporary photography. Over the course of three decades and following ambitious research carried out in several countries, they have conducted one of the most intense and rigorous explorations of the links between... Show more

María Bleda and José María Rosa are among the artists of their generation who have tackled, in detail, the complexities surrounding the notion of landscape in the field of contemporary photography. Over the course of three decades and following ambitious research carried out in several countries, they have conducted one of the most intense and rigorous explorations of the links between image, territory and memory.

This retrospective exhibition covers their careers, compiling all of their work to date for the first time; an exceptional prospect considering the extent of their series and the time frame they cover. The exhibition allows us to delve deeper into their artistic approach, while establishing new fields of analysis in the thematic areas present in their art. In this sense, the exhibition outlines the major discursive axes of their work, notably the dialectic between landscape and territory, as well as the narrative nature of the images in relation to historical accounts and personal experience.