To mark the fifth anniversary of the Oteiza Museum and the publication of “Entre sombras. Fotografía en la Fundación Museo Jorge Oteiza”, a creative workshop is to be run by Navarran photographer Clemente Bernad, in a project of searching and experimentation between sculpture and the architectural paths in the museum.

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Digitalisation has led to a change in the way we look at and perceive things, but also in our way of thinking. The resulting impact has been remarkable, resulting in a great deal of confusion in which it is difficult to ask questions, let alone obtain answers. Just as the emergence of photography caused an upheaval in nineteenth century society, the new technological revolution has made it impossible to look on the world in the same way as before. Everything has changed and we cannot just keep on taking photographs as if nothing had happened.

The workshop offers an area to reflect on the photographic image as associated with the stresses that inspired Oteiza’s work: what is being looked at, where it is being looked at from, why it is being looked at, how it is being looked at, what is being told— and of course, what is obtained and how it is used, especially if photography is seen as being an ambiguous and fragile instrument that enables us to speak about our own lives.

Aims of the workshop

To reflect on current identities in photographic processes to try to distinguish different personal practices.

To analyse the uses to which photographs are put and the role they play in visual culture, in order to consider the power they hold and their importance in developing discourses.

To use photographic and non-photographic materials provided by the participants to compare the approaches, projects and work with the questions that are generated.

To prepare and create a photographic project, taking a reflection on Oteiza’s work and the museum as a starting point.

Duration

15 hours.

Times

26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 May. Group work 5pm – 8pm.

During the rest of the day, participants will work in the different areas of the museum developing their individual projects under the supervision of Clemente Bernad.

From 10am to 8pm, participants may avail of the museum’s lecture hall to work, read or rest.

Material

Camera (digital camera recommended).

Price

€50

Targeted at

Mainly students of Fine Arts, Photography and active artists (all applications will be studied).

Information and reservations

Given the limited number of places, participants will be pre-selected. Anyone interested should send a short CV to: didactica@museooteiza.org

The Museum will issue a certificate of attendance on completion of the course.

Clemente Bernad

Pamplona, 1963.

B.A. in Fine Arts. Bernad’s work has a strong social content; he addresses human conflicts—many of them every day—and constructs stories in which the narration is particularly important.

Since 1986 he has worked as an independent photographer for arange of media outlets. He is currently working with the Italian agency Contrasto. Highlights of his work include Jornaleros (his work in Chiapas following the Zapatista revolution), Mujeres sin tierra, Pobres de nosotros and Basque Chronicles on the political conflict in the Basque Country. He has also been involved in a number of cultural projects, including Madrid visto por…, Visión mediterránea, Una mirada de carnaval, Nuevas cartografías de Madrid, 8 viajes andaluces, Cuatro direcciones and Open Spain.

In 1999 La Fábrica published Photobolsillo, which contained a collection of monographs on his work.

In 2002 he published Canopus on the economic crisis in Argentina and in 2004 El Sueño de Malika, a project which led to his first documentary film.

Most recently, he has worked in Latin America, the Near East and Spain, where he has just finished Donde habita el recuerdo, on the exhumation of mass graves dating from the Spanish Civil War.

His work was included in Chacun à son goût, an exhibition to mark the tenth anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

He is currently working free-lance in several fields of photography.

Further information available at www.clementebernad.com