The Jaume Morera Art Museum hosts the presentation of the photobook "Under the light of the sea" by Espe Pons

On May 4, at 6.30 pm, the Jaume Morera Art Museum will host the presentation in Lleida of the photobook Under the Light of the Sea by the photographer Espe Pons. The event will be given by Oriol Bosch, photography historian and exhibition coordinator of the Museum, and Espe Pons herself, author of the photobook, who will explain the process of creating this renowned photographic essay linked to memory. historical history and the dignity of the victims of the Franco regime. This project has been presented in an exhibition format in various spaces, such as Torroella de Montgrí (Fundació Vila Casas), Madrid (PHotoESPAÑA), Barcelona (Castell de Montjuïc) or New York (Sant Jordi USA) and currently eleven representative images of the work are can be seen at the Jaume Morera Art Museum in the Encrueaments exhibition. Deposits of the National Collection of Photography and Contemporary Art.

Under the Light of the Sea (2019) has as its starting point a personal research work on the story of the little brother of the photographer's grandfather, Tomás Pons Albesa, who was imprisoned and shot in the Camp de la Bota de Barcelona in 1941. In this sense, the images of Espe Pons trace the places where Tomás Pons spent the last moments of his life, empty landscapes without human presence that speak to us from silence and that evoke horror and the repression of the dictatorship.