TRAUMA Joan Fontcuberta
“My work revolves around three main themes: first, the problem of truth; second, the problem of memory; and, finally, the problem of the materiality of the image.” Joan Fontcuberta
TRAUMA is a project in visual archaeology in which Joan Fontcuberta explores what happens when a photograph loses its soul. What happens when a photograph is no longer oriented toward a reality outside the image itself, and all that remains is the substrate, the residue—barely a few stains from light-sensitive chemicals? In this traumatic situation, the photograph becomes amnesic and transforms into a ghost.
