Joan Fontcuberta, a contemporary Catalan artist, grew up under Franco’s dictatorship, and with it the censorship and falsification of information. A graduate in information science, theorist, critic, historian and teacher, his work questions all forms of so-called truth. Drawing on the possibilities offered by the photographic image and its capacity for manipulation, his work takes us into a reality that is both plausible and unusual. In his work Les hydropithèques, the chimera gains in credibility through the use and display of codes specific to scientific research. Everything is there to be authoritative. The fossil sites and the objects in the museum installation are evidence of the authenticity of the approach and its results. Initiated in Digne in 2000, this artistic project has been extended to Annecy and Salamanca.
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