Parera & Sorolla
Guaret
The guaret, an agricultural practice that leaves the land uncultivated to recover, symbolises a pause charged with the present. This photographic series by Parera & Sorolla explores this concept as a metaphor for a time suspended between the past and the future, where the present becomes a space for reflection and possibility.
Through the contemplative gaze of two elderly people, the protagonists of this visual narrative, a forgotten story is reconstructed in an accelerated and artificial world. The misplaced objects and unlikely places they capture invite us to reimagine stories and emotions that challenge our present.
This exhibition is the result of a collaborative work between two photographers who merge their gazes in a common territory, creating a plural but coherent work, both visually and conceptually. An invitation to contemplate the guaret as a space of pause, memory and transformation.
Jaume Parera (Barcelona)
Trained in Fine Arts at the Universitat de Barcelona and in Photography through Labasad’s Master’s Degree in New Documentary Photography.
His work seeks to capture non-normative beauty through memory and the objects that evoke it. Her approach focuses on empowering the subject from their difference, integrating them into the present, connecting them to their environment and giving them visibility.
Her style allows her to create a deep bond with people and their context, exploring the spaces that surround them. His work has been exhibited in international galleries and festivals since 1999 and was recognised at the Discoveries of PHE 2022, where he also won the award for Best Self-published Photobook with the project 0,99 €.
Joan Sorolla (Terrassa)
Catalan photographer, he began his career in the late eighties in the field of music press.
Since 2008, he has developed an extensive body of work with solo and group exhibitions, participation in festivals and the publication of four photobooks. Winner of the Lensculture Visual Storytelling Awards 2019 in the Documentary category, his work explores human imprints on territory and memory, combining analogue photography and conceptualism.
Sorolla advocates a social role of the photographer as a witness of his time, posing stories and reflections on the impact of human action on the world around us.
