Fundación Mapfre Madrid - Sala Recoletos

Consuelo Kanaga. Catch the spirit

Consuelo Kanaga. Capturing the Spirit covers the six decades of work of this fundamental artist in the history of modern photography, "one ahead of her time", as her friend the photographer Dorothea Lange evoked and whose work, surprisingly, is still little known.

The exhibition, organized from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, which preserves an archive, has nearly 180 photographs (mostly period prints) and various documentary material. While it covers and contextualizes Kanaga's work and presents some of his iconic images, it also focuses on the role of photography in the representation of the African-American world.

David Goldblatt. Without ulterior motives

The artistic career of the South African David Goldblatt (1930, Randfontein- 2018, Johannesburg) covered both a wide geographical extension of his country and a great variety of human situations that They show the daily lives of their fellow citizens during and after apartheid. Since its beginnings in 1950, his work - which was progressively reflected in careful books - runs parallel to the historical, political, social and economic evolution of South Africa. Starting in 1999, Goldblatt adopted color for his work, already focusing on the harsh living conditions of the post-Apartheid period.