JORDI BERNADÓ presents ID PROJECT at the National Museum

Gallery, 15 June, 2022

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The Museu Nacional de Catalunya will present in the Oval Room a photographic project by the artist Jordi Bernadó that proposes a series of portraits of characters apparently unrelated to each other, united only by the dialogue with the camera and by the answer to a single question:

What is your place in the world?

Opening: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.

Venue: Oval Room

Images of setup
Images of setup

Some of these characters are famous figures: authors, filmmakers, politicians, activists. They all stand with their backs to the camera, tiny and unrecognizable.

Those portrayed – Jimmy Wales, Stephen Hawking, Ferran Adrià, Rosario Quispe, Pedro Opeka, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Gretchen Cara Daily, Nada Al-Ahdal, Woody Allen, Muhammad Yunus, Gao Xingjian, Steven Pinker, Vivian Gornick and Reed Brody – chose where the photograph had to be taken.

Based on the construction of a heterogeneous and fragmented map, the photographer explores human identity, what supposedly makes us unique.

This project addresses issues of great relevance today, such as the climate, biodiversity or human rights, and which are also central issues in the museum’s work. 

The portraits that are part of this project were made in the location chosen by the portrayed characters and each one is a repository of memories and stories.

The artist starts from the idea that “we all have a place in the world, a place to love, long for, return to”. In this case, the meaning of each setting is captured in the photograph, but it is not revealed. It is a secret between the protagonist and the artist. Thus, like the pieces of a puzzle, each image tells a unique story, the story of a character, a place, a photograph, but together they form a complete file. 

From June 15 to September 4, 2022