My Own Private Gallery (1997 - 2003)
My Own Private Gallery
My Own Private Gallery
My Own Private Gallery is a photographic project in process begun in 1996, which aims to collect the temporary venues of the Charo Art Gallery. These have travelled different scenarios, becoming utopic exhibition spaces, whose goal is to rescue the landscape as a territory for plastic expansion and creation.
The poetic definition of these spaces drifts away from the museum-like premises of preservation, cataloguing, and exhibition, allowing to reaffirm Malraux’s Imaginary Museum proposal. Charo Art Gallery is -thus- a small photographic collection of places that were in their moment captured by the photographic lens, revealing its potential as gallery, as premises in ruins, as shelter for materials, that eventually will be in service of which we call “art.’‘
The poetic definition of these spaces drifts away from the museum-like premises of preservation, cataloguing, and exhibition, allowing to reaffirm Malraux’s Imaginary Museum proposal. Charo Art Gallery is -thus- a small photographic collection of places that were in their moment captured by the photographic lens, revealing its potential as gallery, as premises in ruins, as shelter for materials, that eventually will be in service of which we call “art.’‘