The exhibition presented by the
ICO Museum invites you to explore all of his work, an exceptional circumstance considering the breadth of his work, organized around nine video installations that present a total of 264 images made by Bleda and Rosa from during its beginnings, at the beginning of the nineties during the last three decades: Soccer Fields - Battlefields - Cities - Estancias - Memorials - Typologies - Origin - Corporations - Handbook.
The photographic work of
Bleda y Rosa supposes an approach of critical artistic criticism in which spaces and the complex web of temporalities that cross the present of a space, mutated or not in place, are addressed. In this sense, his works invite the viewer to interact with the image and propose alternatives to the ways of seeing, understanding, and remembering the past, questioning the narratives used to tell us about it.
Stays. Hall of the Columns. Cnossos, 2001, by Bleda and Rosa, VEGAP, Madrid, 2023.
Memorials. Grosse Hamburger Strasse, Scheunenviertel, Berlin, 2005, by Bleda y Rosa, VEGAP, Madrid, 2023.
Taking the landscape as the main thematic axis, crossing it with his approach to architectural and urban spaces as repositories of history and memory, his work is a very pertinent investigation around the processes of "memorialization" of the passage of time, of our recent past.
The work of María Bleda (Castellón, 1969) and José María Rosa (Albacete, 1970) is one of the most outstanding references in contemporary Spanish photography. Throughout three decades they have developed their own trajectory of extraordinary singularity that has had as a central point of reflection the links that intertwine the representation of the territory with history.
