Javier Erre Spanish, b. 1981

My images form a sort of family album that takes us back to a distant past, often that of childhood. I work on the basis of images and documents found in family archives on which I intervene by reproducing the ways in which memory acts: erasing, isolating, repeating, interpreting, distorting... like an annotation that alters the original material, giving it a new meaning. The resulting images, carefully crafted technically and with a strong dramatic charge, offer us a profound reading of the fragility and strength of the individual, of the malaise and the capacity for resilience that characterises our changing times.