Madrid hosts the exhibition Now you see me Moria
Until January 5, El Muro and El Patio de La Casa Encendida host a photographic exhibition, videos and posters that show the harsh conditions in which the refugees of the Moria camp located in Lesbos, Greece, live.
The initiative arises as a result of the fire that took place in 2020 in Moria II, a second settlement. So, Amir, a resident of the camp, and Noemí, a photographer and editor, decide to open the Instagram account. @now_you_see_me_moria to give visibility to the refugees in Lesbos.
This year, Amir and Noemí have launched a program that invites graphic designers from around the world to create posters with the photos published on their Instagram account, thus achieving the collection of 446 posters to exhibit and show the terrible conditions in which refugees are in Greece because of the migration policies of the European Union.
A night in Madrid for reading
The Spanish capital celebrates next October 1 a new edition of La Noche de los Libros in which bookstores, institutions and libraries and nearly 600 authors and publishers will participate. The event has an extensive program with more than 400 activities, including dialogues, concerts, performances and dramatized readings, both in virtual and face-to-face spaces.
Activities for audiences of all ages are expected in different regions of the city. The Royal Post Office, the Royal Post House, and the Plaza Conde de Barajas have joined the initiative, as well as major cultural institutions in Madrid. There will also be routes through galleries and digital conversations with great professionals from the world of writing.
A journey to the past, present and future through the lenses of Judith Joy Ross
Until January 9, the Recoletos Room of the Fundación Mapfre hosts the largest retrospective of the American photographer Judith Joy Ross to date.
Judith is a renowned photographer famous for her portraits that immortalize the past, present and future of the subjects she photographs. Through her lens, she is able to create links with the people who pose before her and show abstract facts and feelings such as innocence, the different states of mourning, morality or the dreams of society.
This initiative brings people from Madrid and visitors closer to the photographic archive that the author has been creating during the last 30 years of her professional career. Her pieces are found in art galleries such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Yale University Art Gallery or the San Francisco Museum.