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Albarrán Cabrera are the photographers Anna Cabrera (b. 1969, Sevilla) and Angel Albarrán (b. 1969, Barcelona) who work together as a collaborative duo based in Barcelona.
The question running like a thread throughout their work is how images trigger individual memories in the viewer. Depending on their cultural background and on their personal experience, viewers will perceive images in different ways. Albarrán Cabrera find very interesting subjects such as time, reality, existence, identity and empathy, but what they find the most fascinating is the relation between them. These relations are difficult to explain by means of words and that is why they rely on images.
“We are particularly interested in memories. Our aim is to play with viewers’ memories and to construct a representation inside their minds. We never know what the final result will be, because individuals have their own exclusive memories and have grown up in different cultures and environments. Our images are the bare bones of this mental construction.
There is a gap between reality and what we understand as real. And photography (as Japanese dramatist Chikamatsu once said about art) lies on the frontier between the real and the unreal, the true and the false. Photography helps us to ‘see’ what is hidden from us.”
Albarrán Cabrera see their photographs as objects in their own right: they personally handcraft their prints in their studio using a wide range of processes and materials.
The question running like a thread throughout their work is how images trigger individual memories in the viewer. Depending on their cultural background and on their personal experience, viewers will perceive images in different ways. Albarrán Cabrera find very interesting subjects such as time, reality, existence, identity and empathy, but what they find the most fascinating is the relation between them. These relations are difficult to explain by means of words and that is why they rely on images.
“We are particularly interested in memories. Our aim is to play with viewers’ memories and to construct a representation inside their minds. We never know what the final result will be, because individuals have their own exclusive memories and have grown up in different cultures and environments. Our images are the bare bones of this mental construction.
There is a gap between reality and what we understand as real. And photography (as Japanese dramatist Chikamatsu once said about art) lies on the frontier between the real and the unreal, the true and the false. Photography helps us to ‘see’ what is hidden from us.”
Albarrán Cabrera see their photographs as objects in their own right: they personally handcraft their prints in their studio using a wide range of processes and materials.
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De Nederlandsche Bank
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The work of Albarrán Cabrera has been shown in Spain, Japan, Switzerland, the USA, Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Lebanon, and Italy. Private collections and institutions that house their photographs include Hermès, Goetz Collection, The German Bundestag's Art Collection, Banco de Santander and De Nederlandsche Bank among others. They have also produced photographic prints for institutions such as Fundació La Pedrera, Barcelona; Fundació Toni Catany, Mallorca; Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid; FotoColectania, Barcelona; the Photographic Archive, Barcelona. They have collaborated with publishers such as Adelphi Edizioni, Mondadori Libri, Penguin Random House, Diogenes Verlag, RM Verlag and Ediciones Atalanta as well as institutions such as La Monnaie De Munt, -Belgium's federal opera house-.
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Exhibitions (selection)
2024
• "Photographic Syntax", Ibasho Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2023
• “Coming to Light”, BILDHALLE, Amsterdam (NL)
• “Sintáxis Fotográfica”, Foto Colectania Barcelona (ES)
• “Photographic Syntax”, Marshall Gallery, Santa Monica (USA)
• Expo CHGO, Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, Chicago (USA)
• Art Rotterdam, group show, BILDHALLE, Rotterdam (NL)
• "Photographic Syntax", Marshall Gallery, CA, (USA_
• "Between the real and the unreal", Bildhalle Gallery, Zürich (CH)
• "The Mouth of Krishna", In The Pink Gallery, Loulé (PT)
• "Albarrán Cabrera. Lo Indestructible", Foto Colectania, Barcelona (ES)
2022
• PAN Amsterdam, group show, BILDHALLE, Amsterdam (NL)
• Paris Photo, group show, Esther Woerdehoff Galerie, Paris (FR)
• "Oasis - Nature and Architecture", group show, BILDHALLE, Zollikon (CH)
• "Playing with the Light of the Universe", solo show, Bildhalle, Amsterdam (NL)
• Japan: Werner Bischof - Albarrán Cabrera", group show, Bildhalle, Zurich (CH)
• "As Far as the Eye can See", solo show, Michael Hoppen, Gallery at Connelly, London (UK)
• "Web of Life", solo show, Esther Woerdehoff Gallery, Geneva (CH)
2021
• "Ocean", group show, Bildhalle, Zurich (CH)
• Photo Basel, group show, Bildhalle
• "A display of works", solo show, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London (UK)
• "A very subtle light", solo show, Esther Woerdehoff Gallery, Paris (FR)
• "Pale Blue Dot", solo show, Ibasho Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2020
• “Fernweh”, group exhibition, Bildhalle, Zürich (CH)
• “An Ethereal Glow”, solo exhibition, Marshall Contempo-rary, Los Angeles (USA)
• “There was never a time when we didn’t exist”, solo exhi-bition, Nailya Alexander Gallery, NYC (USA)
• “Beyond the Obvious”, group exhibition, Ira Stehmann Fine Art, Münich (DE)
2019
• “Seaside”, group exhibition, Bildhalle, Zürich (CH)
• “Icons”, group exhibition, Bildhalle, Zürich (CH)
• “Someone lived this”, solo exhibition, Esther Woerdehoff Gallery, Paris (FR)
• “Subtle Shadows of Bamboo on Bamboo”, solo exhibi-tion, Ibasho Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
• “Infinite Spirit”, group exhibition, Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
2018
• “Remembering the future”, solo exhibition, Bildhalle, Zürich (CH)
• “Aspects of influence”, solo exhibition, Dada Object Trou-vé, Barcelona (ES)
• “L’indistruttibile”, solo exhibition, Galleria de’ Foscherari, Bologna (IT)
• “Albarran-Cabrera”, solo exhibition, Nailya Alexander Gallery, NYC (USA)
2017
• “Japan Contemporary”, group exhibition, Soiz Galerie, Passau (DE)
• “EXPLORATIONS - New positions in Photography and Photorealism”, group exhibition, Micheko Galerie, Münich (DE)
2016
• “Why all the time”, solo exhibition, Valid Photo Gallery, Barcelona (ES)
• “This is you”, solo exhibition, Kochuten Gallery, Nagoya (JP)
2015
• “This is you” and “The Mouth of Krishna”, solo exhibition, Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam (NL)
• “The Mouth of Krishna”, solo exhibition, Photomed Festi-val, Beirut (LB)
Collections (selections)
• Hermès Art Collection, Paris (FR)
• Goetz Collection (GE)
• Art Collection De Nederlandsche Bank (NL)
• Art Collection Santander Bank (ES)
• The German Bundestag’s Art Collection (DE)
Publications
2021
• "The World's First Photobook Was Blue", co-edition of Ira Stehmann, the (M) édition and IBASHO
2020
• “Pale Blue Dot”, One co-edition of the (M) éditions and IBASHO
• “Des Oiseaux”, Atelier EXB
2018
• “Remembering the future”, RM Publisher
• “Pequeñas melodias“, IIKKI Books
2024
• "Photographic Syntax", Ibasho Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2023
• “Coming to Light”, BILDHALLE, Amsterdam (NL)
• “Sintáxis Fotográfica”, Foto Colectania Barcelona (ES)
• “Photographic Syntax”, Marshall Gallery, Santa Monica (USA)
• Expo CHGO, Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, Chicago (USA)
• Art Rotterdam, group show, BILDHALLE, Rotterdam (NL)
• "Photographic Syntax", Marshall Gallery, CA, (USA_
• "Between the real and the unreal", Bildhalle Gallery, Zürich (CH)
• "The Mouth of Krishna", In The Pink Gallery, Loulé (PT)
• "Albarrán Cabrera. Lo Indestructible", Foto Colectania, Barcelona (ES)
2022
• PAN Amsterdam, group show, BILDHALLE, Amsterdam (NL)
• Paris Photo, group show, Esther Woerdehoff Galerie, Paris (FR)
• "Oasis - Nature and Architecture", group show, BILDHALLE, Zollikon (CH)
• "Playing with the Light of the Universe", solo show, Bildhalle, Amsterdam (NL)
• Japan: Werner Bischof - Albarrán Cabrera", group show, Bildhalle, Zurich (CH)
• "As Far as the Eye can See", solo show, Michael Hoppen, Gallery at Connelly, London (UK)
• "Web of Life", solo show, Esther Woerdehoff Gallery, Geneva (CH)
2021
• "Ocean", group show, Bildhalle, Zurich (CH)
• Photo Basel, group show, Bildhalle
• "A display of works", solo show, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London (UK)
• "A very subtle light", solo show, Esther Woerdehoff Gallery, Paris (FR)
• "Pale Blue Dot", solo show, Ibasho Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2020
• “Fernweh”, group exhibition, Bildhalle, Zürich (CH)
• “An Ethereal Glow”, solo exhibition, Marshall Contempo-rary, Los Angeles (USA)
• “There was never a time when we didn’t exist”, solo exhi-bition, Nailya Alexander Gallery, NYC (USA)
• “Beyond the Obvious”, group exhibition, Ira Stehmann Fine Art, Münich (DE)
2019
• “Seaside”, group exhibition, Bildhalle, Zürich (CH)
• “Icons”, group exhibition, Bildhalle, Zürich (CH)
• “Someone lived this”, solo exhibition, Esther Woerdehoff Gallery, Paris (FR)
• “Subtle Shadows of Bamboo on Bamboo”, solo exhibi-tion, Ibasho Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
• “Infinite Spirit”, group exhibition, Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
2018
• “Remembering the future”, solo exhibition, Bildhalle, Zürich (CH)
• “Aspects of influence”, solo exhibition, Dada Object Trou-vé, Barcelona (ES)
• “L’indistruttibile”, solo exhibition, Galleria de’ Foscherari, Bologna (IT)
• “Albarran-Cabrera”, solo exhibition, Nailya Alexander Gallery, NYC (USA)
2017
• “Japan Contemporary”, group exhibition, Soiz Galerie, Passau (DE)
• “EXPLORATIONS - New positions in Photography and Photorealism”, group exhibition, Micheko Galerie, Münich (DE)
2016
• “Why all the time”, solo exhibition, Valid Photo Gallery, Barcelona (ES)
• “This is you”, solo exhibition, Kochuten Gallery, Nagoya (JP)
2015
• “This is you” and “The Mouth of Krishna”, solo exhibition, Unseen Photo Fair, Amsterdam (NL)
• “The Mouth of Krishna”, solo exhibition, Photomed Festi-val, Beirut (LB)
Collections (selections)
• Hermès Art Collection, Paris (FR)
• Goetz Collection (GE)
• Art Collection De Nederlandsche Bank (NL)
• Art Collection Santander Bank (ES)
• The German Bundestag’s Art Collection (DE)
Publications
2021
• "The World's First Photobook Was Blue", co-edition of Ira Stehmann, the (M) édition and IBASHO
2020
• “Pale Blue Dot”, One co-edition of the (M) éditions and IBASHO
• “Des Oiseaux”, Atelier EXB
2018
• “Remembering the future”, RM Publisher
• “Pequeñas melodias“, IIKKI Books
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