Anna Malagrida at the Museu Tàpies in Barcelona
A look back at the exhibition “Opacitas: Veiling Transparency,” presented in Barcelona.
The Museu Tàpies in Barcelona recently dedicated a major exhibition to Anna Malagrida, a visual artist and photographer, and a professor at the Atelier de Sèvres.
Entitled “Opacitas: Veiling Transparency,” this retrospective explored the links between photography, video, and installation, through a body of work that questions the boundaries between the visible and the invisible.
Between opacity and transparency
Through her series of images and videos, Anna Malagrida immerses the viewer in these “liminal” spaces, which are both zones of transition and tension. His painted shop windows, veiled urban landscapes, and silent interiors reveal a visual style that is both poetic and political.
His photographs transform everyday stuff, walls, reflections, gestures, into sensitive surfaces where abstraction and memory, painting and reality intermingle.
A work combining poetry and commitment
Oscillating between pictorial and documentary, his work offers a reflection on vulnerability, resistance, and reconstruction, social, urban, and human issues that are central to his practice.
Through texture and light, Anna Malagrida questions the viewer's position, inviting them to step beyond the veil of transparency and rediscover the contemporary landscape in a new light.
