8th edition of the Panoramic Festival

Panoramic, Film, Photography and more festival grows and expands . The festival expands the number of days, cities and scheduled activities. Panoràmic 2024 celebrates its 8th edition from October 10 to December 29 , opening exhibitions in Granollers on October 10, Barcelona on October 24 and Terrassa on November 14.

In Granollers, Panoràmic will be held, as usual, in different spaces of Roca Umbert Fàbrica de les Arts -La Térmica, Espai d'Art, Nau Dents de Serra and outdoor spaces of the factory-, at the Museum of Natural Sciences , at the Cinema Edison , in the Adoberia , in the Refugi Antiaeri and in some streets of Granollers . In Barcelona the festival will be held at the Fundació Lluís Coromina - Espai Isern Dalmau , the Center Excursionista de Catalunya (CEC), the La Casa de l'Ardiaca Archive , the Ethnography and Folklore Archive of Catalonia and the Photography Center KBr - MAPFRE Foundation , which will host the cycle of conferences with authors from this edition of the festival. In Terrassa, the festival will be installed in the Sala Muncunill and the Tobella Archive.

The festival, which aims to be a meeting point between the still image and the moving image , with disciplines ranging from photography to cinema, video, installation and other contemporary visual practices, will have exhibitions, projections, debates, workshops, guided tours and conferences in the different cultural spaces of the three cities.

Conceptual Ukraine by photographer Boris Mikhailov

The Panoràmic festival dedicates an exhibition to Boris Mikhailov (Kharkov, Ukraine, 1938), one of the last great photographers of our time. For more than six decades, the Ukrainian photographer, rarely seen and known in our country, has created provocative photography that reflects the progress of his country. Framed in the current of conceptual photography, which opposes the realism imposed by the USSR, his maxim has always been subversion, the representation of a border between reality and fiction of the suffering of his people, through different works, painting the photographs or giving a new treatment to old images.

Boris Mikhailov is not a documentary photographer. The author has always created an alternative reality, rejecting the ultra-realistic documentary nature of his images, since he has never hidden that he pays his models to pose or that he alters the images. This praxis expresses his political and social vision, representing "the poverty, the pain, the abandonment, the animality, the detritus" that the human being suffers when capitalism arrives.

The Panoràmic festival opens "The penultimate temptation of an indomitable photographer", a large-format exhibition curated by Iván de la Nuez, which illustrates the photographer's return to his native Ukraine, today in ruins. The exhibition illustrates the photographer's return to a half-built and abandoned crematorium in Soviet Kiev, a reunion with degradation, physical and architectural, just as forceful as that of post-communist Ukraine. The exhibition, mounted in the form of 35 large-scale diptychs, makes a combination between present and past, and hints at an unencouraging future.

Boris Mikhailov has been awarded, among others, the Hasselblad Award and the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize.

Boris Mikhaïlov. La penúltima temptació d’un fotògraf indomable

Return to ancestral beliefs from post-apartheid South Africa

With the aim of escaping a Eurocentric approach, the Panoràmic 2024 programming looks towards the southern hemisphere. South African multidisciplinary artist Thania Petersen (1989, Cape Town), for the first time with a solo exhibition in Spain, addresses through photography, performance and installation the complexity of her identity in the South contemporary africa The exhibition, titled “Vannie Kaap” (“coming from Cape Town” in the African colloquial dialect of the region), takes a journey from ancestral beliefs to present-day post-apartheid Cape Town, with the aim of reviving erased stories and reviving figures of the past Collaborate with artisans, musicians and Sufi choirs from Africa and Asia to dissolve the borders imposed by colonialism and re-establish historical narratives, now told with compassion and resistance, not with conflict with contemporary Islamophobia, highlights the enduring legacy of colonialism, European and American imperialism, and the rise of right-wing ideologies, as well as the cultural implications of Westernized consumerism.

Understanding the indigenous loom from the perspective of codes and algorithms

The Bolivian artist Aruma , a weaver who works with traditional Andean textile techniques, presents "Illasamay. Textiles of resplendent energy", an exhibition that exhibits different textile works of millennial tradition and revitalizes them with the incorporation of modern materials such as synthetic fibers , LEDs and electrochemical and interactive processes to show how energy flows between fibers. Aruma, who is exhibiting for the first time in Spain, presents an artistic proposal that fuses experimentation with historical, archaeological and anthropological research. The artist, who has worked with weavers from all over Latin America, especially Aymara and Quechua master weavers, specializes in the waist loom, in which the loom hangs from a tree branch at one end and another is tied to the artist's waist, a circular movement that gives him energy and part of a living ecosystem.

Thania Petersen. Valley of the Waves, 2023

The neighborhood as a synonym for social hierarchy

Panoràmic file, the project that invites artists to work with historical archives in Granollers, Barcelona and, as a novelty, Terrassa, with the aim of activating their funds and making them visible, will have an intervention by the visual artist Ro Caminal (Barcelona, 1966) in the Tobella Archive , which preserves and disseminates a documentary and graphic collection on the history of the city of Terrassa. The exhibition, entitled "Distances", deals with the traditional location of social housing on the city's fringes, a geographical disconnection that creates a hierarchy between core and urban periphery that reproduces and maintains social distances. Both newly arrived immigrants and the middle layers of the native population have difficulties accessing housing. A speculation that started during the dictatorship and that today remains more valid than ever, with the aggravation that there is now a large and empty housing stock.

El Montseny, from the idyll of the 20th century to the current stress

The artist Enric Mauri (Cardedeu, 1957) presents "Shadows and clearings", a dialogue between the part of the archive of the Center Excursionista de Catalunya that refers to Montseny, and two projects that the artist made about the space natural The project contrasts an idyllic Montseny, photographed in the early and mid-20th century by CEC members, with a stressed Montseny that is supposed to be one of the green lungs of the area of influence of the city of Barcelona.

Enric Maurí. Ombres i clarianes. Instal·lacions furtives, Sant Celoni, 2013

Finalist projects of the Open Panoràmic The Open Panoràmic , the artistic call for national authors and works in audiovisual format based on photographs, videos, texts, infographics, webdocs or the hybridization of some of these techniques, announces the authors and finalist authors

The 8 finalist works will be exhibited at La Capella in Barcelona and will form part of the program of the Official Section of the festival . The screening of the selected projects, conceived as a meeting point between creators and cultural agents, experts from the art world and the public, will also have the presence of international curators, who will also show a selection of artists from their countries.

This year's call, coordinated by Houari Bouchenak and Xavier de Luca from the Jiser Association, has received more than 50 proposals. The finalist authors are: Joel Jiménez Jara, Ramon Guimarães, Carmen Isasi, Izaro Ieregi, Jean-Matthieu Gosselin and Ullic Morard, Miquel García, Aitana López and Osvaldo Cibils.