Joan Fontcuberta
SEMIOPOLIS
SUPPORTED BY THE HELLENIC-SPANISH
ASSOCIATION FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA
CO-ORGANIZED BY THE MUNICIPAL
CULTURAL SERVICES YENI TZAMI
Joan Fontcuberta (Spain, 1955) invents fictions and narratives, constantly ushering the viewer into the fantastic, yet does so without without either pre or post-photographic manipulation: what you see is both real and unreal. The images of Semiopolis depict strange futuristic landcapes, perhaps the arid surfaces of deep-space planets dotted with mysterious structures; in reality, they are pages of Braille text photographed in extreme closeup. The identity of the texts (Borges, Calvino, Kafka) is important, since for the artist, "reading is always a kind of voyage: an expedition, an adventure, an invitation to the imaginary".
