I feel at ease here, in this city.
I’m in the middle of the jungle. A harsh concrete forest
with brick caves
where miserable and cowardly beings
hide with their most valued belongings.
J. M. Fonollosa, Ciudad del hombre: New York
Any metropolis is a formidable fabric, a tentacular mess, a deafening polyphony where what is most evident in broad daylight hides its darker features, its more sinister face and the myriad details of anxiety, loneliness and failure.
Blackcelona charts a journey into the greyer tones of that urban polychromy, guiding us through the chiaroscuro that engulfs the city's very morphology and the creatures that inhabit it.
The images in Blackcelona build a story where a narrative thread is suggested from the first to the last picture but, rather than establishing an unambiguous account, the book is an invitation to an experience; an aesthetic adventure seasoned with the grotesque, the dark, the occult...
ISBN 978-84-606-8293-6
Dalpine, 2015
Editing: Salvi Danés & Román Yñán
Design: Opisso Studio
Prepress: Víctor Garrido
Embossed hardcover
128 pages
83 images
18,8 x 14,8 cm
Edition of 500 copies
Reviews:
Colin Pantall
YET Magazine
Dazed
Détour
Lur estudios visuales
Shortlisted for the Rencontres d'Arles Author Book Award 2016
