Betsy Green and Isabel Codina
Wednesday 5 April, 7 pm. Virreina Lab
Free entrance. Seating is limited

Susan Sontag’s emblematic essay On Photography (1977) serves as the title and an invocation for this series of conversations between photographers who work in very different national and international contexts.

The idea is to relate different practices, as well as opposing positions and paradigms, but also complementary ones. We understand that in enunciating one’s work, there is a way of constructing the public sphere, a way of exposing one’s self and collectively determining the extent of the message, but especially its place in the community.

Betsy Green is an artist and uses old photographic technologies. His work focuses on the exploration of the landscape, especially in remote areas of the world, and is particularly interested in the trees and natural formations. Its anachronistic approach is characterized by the use of a camera field nineteenth century with glass plates. This technique allows for large-format images. It is a film format, very contemporary, which is also related to the romantic tradition of large-scale painting of the nineteenth century.

Born in Barcelona in 1961, Isabel Codina graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. A resident at Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht in 1989-1990, she was the assistant photographer to Hisao Suzuki from 1990 to 1995 and photographed interiors for magazines between 1995 and 2000. She presented her PhD thesis in Photography with the title La fotografia com a document topogràfic del territori (Photography as a Topographical Document of the Territory) in 2014 and self-published a photobook, A Room in Iceland, in 2016. She currently teaches photography at the Serra i Abella School of Art and Design in Barcelona and is editing her PhD thesis for publication.