Alonso Vidal Gallery, Barcelona. 2007
Boxes full of old photographs, letters, documents, objects and belongings, family albums slumbering in flea markets and auctions, promiscuously mixed together, memories that were never connected and now, by chance, coexist in strange relationships.
A bullfighter, a cabaret dancer, a cyclist, families, weddings, friends, dogs, parents and children, people walking, groups, sophisticated ladies, soldiers at the front.
Glances that never thought they would be seen by outsiders, intimate moments, mixed with objects that accompanied them for years and served their purpose. Fragments of other people’s lives, which exert an irresistible fascination on us.
It is these shipwrecks that come into our hands after the most eventful journeys, these capsules of memory, that Pep Carrió uses to construct his work.
The reinvention of a non-existent past, curiosity about these other people’s lives, about these used, discarded objects, junk-yard jewels that lie haphazardly in boxes and on shelves, only to be reinterpreted in a new space.