The Exhibition ‘Min Turab’ by Documentary Photographer Roger Grasas Can be Visited until may 4 in Madrid.
The Exhibition ‘Min Turab’ by Documentary Photographer Roger Grasas Can be Visited until may 4 in Madrid.
The exhibition ‘Min Turab’ by documentary photographer Roger Grasas can be visited until March 4 at the Casa Árabe in Madrid. It is a compilation of 51 images that show the landscape transformation of the oil monarchies of the Persian Gulf, according to the organizers.
Roger Grasas’s works have a very documentary style and investigate concepts of post-capitalist society, such as globalization, alienation, or hyperreality, and have been exhibited in galleries in Spain, France, Mexico, and the Netherlands.
According to the Casa Árabe, in ‘Min Turab’ (whose literal translation is ‘The Land’), Grasas, personal photographer of the Court of the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia, documents the transformation of the Gulf that fluctuates from a traditional society to a culture influenced by capitalism and consumerism.
His works, with almost no human presence, reflect the ‘nature-technology duality’ of the landscapes of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, or Qatar, where the old and the new are diluted.
Also, according to art critics, ‘subtlety’ is a characteristic trait of Grasas’s works. For example, a ship abandoned in the desert is a ‘sign of a different nature’ that contributes to the sensation of ‘strangeness’ of ‘a dreamed world’.
The exhibition ‘Min Turab’ by documentary photographer Roger Grasas can be visited until March 4 at the Casa Árabe in Madrid. It is a compilation of 51 images that show the landscape transformation of the oil monarchies of the Persian Gulf, according to the organizers.
Roger Grasas’s works have a very documentary style and investigate concepts of post-capitalist society, such as globalization, alienation, or hyperreality, and have been exhibited in galleries in Spain, France, Mexico, and the Netherlands.
According to the Casa Árabe, in ‘Min Turab’ (whose literal translation is ‘The Land’), Grasas, personal photographer of the Court of the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia, documents the transformation of the Gulf that fluctuates from a traditional society to a culture influenced by capitalism and consumerism.
His works, with almost no human presence, reflect the ‘nature-technology duality’ of the landscapes of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, or Qatar, where the old and the new are diluted.
Also, according to art critics, ‘subtlety’ is a characteristic trait of Grasas’s works. For example, a ship abandoned in the desert is a ‘sign of a different nature’ that contributes to the sensation of ‘strangeness’ of ‘a dreamed world’.
