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Francesc Fabregas

17/02/05. (Sala 228)

The shapes of the objects change, and the way colours are combined. The way we think changes, and the way we talk. Habits change. New ways of shopping, travelling and the way we dress emerge everyday. Everything goes up and comes down. Everything changes. Photography and photographers. The camera moves away from the body and loses the intimacy of short distances. But we gain immediateness. What links one day to another and one year to the last? Only the person. What links a sixties photograph of Frank Zappa to a scene with a digital image of an anonimous swimmer? The author.

Francesc Fàbregas has lived many changes throughout his professional and creative career. He has found that his permanent wishes have to live with transformation. He knows that it is the way to keep a personal look. Therefore when he underwent the most common transformation of our times, moving from analog to digital thinking, he found that the change was not fundamentally technological. It is the fear of change that makes us panic about transformations. Fàbregas overcame his fear and that made his last creative stage in the field of photography a fresh one. He discovered that everything does actually remain the same. However, he has proved that his concern has resisted change. He has discovered that the camera loses the reel, gains connections, surfs the internet, goes on hire with other devices like the telephone, but it continious to have the same function as in the time when Fàbregas lived with photographs from rock concerts. Its current look proves that the signs of time are not found in grand sophistication, but in everyday objects that people seem to despise. As always, photography is a diary that collects daily and chooses an image of the day to transmit a sensation. The sum of all these sensations is not a photographic album. It is the testimonial of a way of feeling.

(Ways of feeling) Jaume Vidal.