Diego Ferrari will introduce photographic projects evolving from
his artistic concerns and research, and which have
also informed his teaching of fine art approaches to
photography. In his conception, photography becomes
a playful process which allows for an interdisciplinary
approach between photography, performance
art/’happenings’ and the public space. The act of
photographing becomes itself performative and
challenges ideas of public and private space, and
what can and cannot beenacted in the city. Ferrari
will present photography from projects in Berlin,
London, Barcelona and Johannesburg, where he has
worked with various universities and institutions such
as Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design,
Goldsmiths and Kingston Universities in London,
Elisava Barcelona School, the House of World Cultures
in Berlin and the Goethe Institute in South Africa. The
work elicits an ambiguity between personal subjectivity
and social objectivity as a fertile platform to reflect on
the psychological as well as bodily and metaphysical
relationship to the notion of public space. Cities of Light: Barcelona is co-organised by Diego Ferrari, Urban Photographers Association (UPA) / Kingston University, UK and Elisava University, Barcelona; Laura Cuch, Urban Photographers Association (UPA) / Goldsmiths, University of London and University College London; and Jean McNeil, University of East Anglia, UK; in collaboration with Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya