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The Observation

Of Trifles


2013-2016

"The observation of trifles" (2013-2016) is about how a foreigner finds his way in a new country and a new neighbourhood. I am the immigrant. Taking objects that I found on the streets and using them as a kind of visual archaeology, I discovered East London and its denizens. I focus on the neighbourhoods of Tower Hamlets and Hackney. I live on the border in between both of them. The combination of objects with photographs helps me to introduce to the audience my work through a more physically way and with a mystery feeling. Thanks to these elements I am making an analytic and expressive world: urban furniture reproductions; landscapes of council houses created between the 50's and 70's for Londoners and immigrants with low rents; details of letters with notes, drawings... But the most important aspect of this work is the people who I met thanks to the signals and ways that I followed guided by the objects that I found on the street. They are the key to open an unexplored world and new life stories. "The observation of trifles" is a work that is at the crossroads of the collection, history and architectural document, visual and social analysis. I have attempted to do not forget the photographic aesthetic and the photographic poetic value.

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Photo Carlos Alba www.carlosalba.com
Photo Carlos Alba www.carlosalba.com
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Photo Carlos Alba www.carlosalba.com
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Selected

exhibitions

This body of work has been exhibied in Paris, London, New York, Madrid, Singapore, Sidney, Tokyo, Lodz, Braga...

Festival Circulation(s) - CentQuatre - Paris - From 26th of March to 26th of June 2016

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Grand Prix Fotofestiwal - ArtInkubator - Lodz - From 9th to 19th of June 2016

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PhotoEspaña 2016 - Sala El Águila - Madrid - From 8th to 18th of July 2016

PhotoEspana 2016. Carlos Alba’s solo show. The Observation of Trifles.
PhotoEspana 2016. Carlos Alba’s solo show. The Observation of Trifles.

Auditorio de Galicia - Sala Zona C - Santiago de Compostela - From 30th of November 2016 to 22nd of January 2017

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Format 2017 - Habitat - University of Derby - From 24th of March to 23th of April 2017

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Carlos Alba

+34 626 159 284 (Spain)
studio@carlosalba.com

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