Galería de las Misiones is pleased to announce the exhibition of Chema Madoz and Sara Facio in the context of Focus, the José Ignacio Photography Festival.
Chema Madoz (José María Rodríguez Madoz, born in 1958 in Madrid, Spain) is a photographer recognized for his poetic and surrealist approach, specializing in the creation of black and white images that explore the relationship between everyday objects and their transformation through of photography.
Madoz studied Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid and photography at the Image Teaching Center. Throughout his career, he has developed a unique style that is based on visual manipulation and paradox, where common objects are reinterpreted to acquire new meanings. His compositions are meticulous, minimalist and symbolic, inviting the viewer to question their perception of reality.
A central feature of his work is the creation of "visual poems" where he combines objects in unexpected ways. The use of black and white reinforces the timeless and conceptual nature of his images, and his photography does not seek to document reality, but to transform it.
Sara Facio (1932 - 2024 Buenos Aires, Argentina) One of the most influential photographers in Latin America, known for her contribution to documentary photography and her portrait of the most emblematic cultural figures of Argentina and the Latin American world. Throughout her prolific career, she has been both a visual chronicler of her time and a promoter of the development of photography as an art.
Sara trained at the School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, but it was in the 1960s that her work began to gain recognition, especially through her collaboration with Alicia D'Amico, another prominent Argentine photographer. Together they documented the cultural, social and political life of the time, including iconic portraits of Latin American writers, artists and poets, such as Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar and Maria Elena Walsh. These images not only capture the physical features of the people, but also convey their personality and the intellectual environment in which they moved.