We can understand an album as a surface, a device or an artefact in which one or more people inscribe the memory of an experience, in which they attempt to leave a record of themselves or portray a side of their identity. In EXIT 90 we open a first door to deal with the subject of the album from the own, intimate perspective of the photographer, paying attention to the work of artists who have used this strategy to talk about something particularly close to themselves: their family, their environment, their friends or even themselves.

EXIT 90 Album I - Personal stories brings together the work of up to sixteen photographers who, from different perspectives, are representative of the subject. The central text, signed by the researcher María Rosón, talks about the album and the photographic compilation as a structure of memory and a writing of I/we, based on works by artists such as Jo Spence, Fernando Montiel Klint, Anna Fux or Ignacio Navas. In the dossiers section, we present the work of twelve photographers. Trish Morrissey leads the way with an exercise in fiction; Sian Davey and Doug DuBoys document their everyday environment, linked to people in their family; Ana Casas Broda, Sara Davidmann, Diana Tamane and Suwon Lee dust off family archives to revisit the album concept; Sara Angelucci and Joy Gregory do a similar exercise but using objects such as a handbag or clothes from a closet; Lebohang Kganye, Chino Otsuka and Jon Uriarte intervene, manipulate, directly in the archives, either from the phantasmagoria or from the erasure.

In Portfolio, the section in which we give space to the most interesting photographers on the contemporary scene, we present Laia Abril, Nicola di Giorgio, Clothilde Matta, Marianne Matouk and Kamonlak Sukchai.

Editorial

Rosa Olivares. Sometimes I see dead people: memory and fiction

Texts

María Rosón. The photo album: Part collection of traces, part self-writing

Central theme artists

Sara Angelucci, Ana Casas Broda, Sian Davey, Sara Davidmann, Doug DuBois, Anna Fux, Joy Gregory, Lebohang Kganye, Suwon Lee, Fernando Montiel Klint, Trish Morrissey, Ignacio Navas, Chino Otsuka, Jo Spence, Diana Tamane and Jon Uriarte

Portfolio artists

Laia Abril, Nicola di Giorgio, Clothilde Matta, Marianne Matouk and Kamonlak Sukchai.

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