Third edition of KBr Flama

KBr Fundación MAPFRE hosts the third edition of KBr Flama, an annual project to support young talent that was born with the aim of supporting emerging creation and new generations of photographers. The exhibition brings together the projects of Alan Balzac (Galicia, 1989), Ivette Blaya (Santa Margarida de Montbui, Barcelona, 2000), Rocío Madrid (Melilla, 1988) and Lucía Morón (Buenos Aires), who started their professional career after having trained at IEFC, Idep Barcelona, Elisava Faculty of Design and Engineering in Barcelona and Grisart, respectively. Their works were selected among those of other students from the aforementioned schools by a jury made up of Mónica Allende (artistic director of the GetxoPhoto Festival, Bilbao), David Armengol (director of La Capella, Barcelona), Irene de Mendoza (artistic director from the Foto Colectania Foundation, Barcelona) and Anna Planas (artistic director of Paris Photo).

Alan Balzac presented his book La muerte de la identidad in November 2022 in the Steichen classroom of the IEFC, an autoethnographic essay consisting of a theoretical part where he reflected on the concept of identity within an invisible category and hegemonic as is that of the white heterosexual cis man. For her part, Ivette Blaya, winner of the 17th Can Basté Photographic Forum, combines photography, poetry and visual creations in her works. The selected work reflects on the tension and disagreements that arise during the childhood stage between the paternal body that imposes itself and the vulnerable body that must be obeyed and obeyed. KBr Flama will also show the work of Rocío Madrid, who combines pop aesthetics, memories of adolescence and feminine references in his images to reflect elements that come from his life experience and culture. In her work, Lucía Morón deals with self-portraiture, portraiture and conceptual photography, through which she explores inheritance, social and family mandates, love, marriage, the territory of the body and visible and invisible wounds , the resilience and beauty of what is imperfect.

The four selected projects bear witness to the concerns and interests of a photography that expands in themes and formats that result in investigations into identity transitions and evolutions, the tensions and transformative possibilities that arise from them.