RocioSantaCruz participates in Paris Photo 2023 with social, feminist and post-colonial questions

RocioSantaCruz presents at Paris Photo 2023 a set of works that question society, feminism and post-colonial concepts. Antoni Campañà (Arbúcies, 1905 - Sant Cugat del Vallès, 1989) offers the social account of Spain in 1936, at the outbreak of the Civil War. Marcel Giró (Badalona, 1913 - Sant Cugat del Vallès, 2022) and Palmira Puig (Tàrrega, Lleida, Spain, 1912 - Barcelona, 1979) (members of FotoCine Clube Bandeirante) provide a social view of Brazil in the 1950s. Mara Català, with a selection of unpublished vintage photographs, and by the hand of Subcomandante Marcos, is witness to the Chapatista Revolution of 1996 in Mexico.

As usual, the gallery presents a selection of vintage photographs from the years 60-79 by Colita (Barcelona, 1940), with a social and explicitly feminist content. Pilar Aymerich (Barcelona, 1943) and her Travestis series (1972) is the first photographic record of those who transited during the Franco regime. Pioneering trans women who expressed their gender identity during carnival, or those who underwent sex reassignment surgery, have a face of their own in Aymerich's reflective gaze.

The contemporary positioning comes with Gloria Oyarzabal (London, 1971) and Toni Amengual, (Mallorca, Spain, 1980) who question the western accounts of legitimation. Oyarzabal, nominated for the Prix Elysse23, from the rethinking of the museum in the postcolonialist debate; Amengual questioning the power of images and tourism in European capitals.

In this 2023 edition, RocioSantaCruz pays tribute to Ouka Leele, (Madrid, 1957-2022), exhibiting her first unpublished works from the 80s and the international artist ORLAN (Saint-Èté, France) presents her series of hybrids of relevant female figures of history, among which Agnès Varda and Olympes de Gouges stand out.