Juan Manuel Castro Prieto — Cespedosa
Museo de la Fotografía de Huete
Cuenca (Spain)
From 27 January to 31 March
For over forty years Juan Manuel Castro Prieto has been regularly photographing the village where he comes from, and has produced a major series, Cespedosa, in which we can see the recurring elements of his work: childhood, death, myths and symbols, dreams, ghosts, and the precariousness of things and beings.
“Cespedosa could be described as a small village nestling between a road and the river that gives it its name, inhabited by just over five hundred souls in the province of Salamanca. Only the church and the tower of a vanished castle form a vertical structure on the inclined horizon.
Castro Prieto returns regularly to this place as if to a sentimental homeland, a place of rest and evocation, sheltered from the world and in search of that lazy tranquillity that allows for nostalgic or disquieting dreams. This is where his parents and grandparents were born, and where his feelings, his memory and his raison d’être were built.”
Chema Conesa, exhibition curator
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