Hundreds of people have visited the proposal that has been included in the Art Palma Summer programme that has been held this Thursday

This Thursday, the Consell de Mallorca inaugurated the winning exhibition of the Mallorca Contemporary Photography Award 2023: ‘Veñen corvos voando baixo’ is now on display at the Misericòrdia until 15th September.

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The Consell de Mallorca inaugurates the winning exhibition of the Mallorca Contemporary Photography Award 2023

Hundreds of people have visited the proposal that has been included in the Art Palma Summer programme, which was held this Thursday. This Thursday, the Consell de Mallorca also reopened the Misericòrdia cistern and organised a concert by the Mallorcan singer-songwriter Pablo Alegría.

The winning photographic project is by the artist Toro Arias and consists of 60 colour and black-and-white photographs of various sizes and 5 large-format textile prints. The work, created in 2020, just at the outbreak of the pandemic, proposes a critical look at the relationship of human beings with the physical environment they inhabit and their way of life.

‘Veñen corvos voando baixo’ won the Mallorca Contemporary Photography Award last November, among the 56 projects presented in this edition. It competed with entries from all over the world, including Argentina, Italy, Morocco, Peru, Portugal and Spain.

Toro Arias confirms the capacity of photography to reflect ideas, convey meanings and invite reflection. In this case, his work is a metaphorical representation of man’s fragility in the face of nature and the drastic changes that society is currently facing. The photographs invite us to reflect on the time stopped during the pandemic and on how human beings transform and relate to the territory they inhabit.

Tono Arias began his work as a press and documentary photographer in 1984 in Ourense. He worked for several media, until 2000, when he started a period as a freelance photographer, when he created his own studio and developed several professional works in the field of industrial photography, advertising, fashion, architecture, editorial and documentary. His project ‘RAZA’ won the Eloi Gimeno 2022 award.