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Guest Room aims to inspire collaboration and creative exchange. In this edition, Jo. Trujillo Argüelles, former Director of the Centro de la Imagen, partners with María Santoyo, director of PHotoESPAÑA. "What (Dis)Appears" is the theme they chose for this edition of Guest Room.

"What do you overlook when you look? And what do we miss together? Why does it remain unseen?

As in the darkroom, between developer and fixer, photography is a space for manifesting the latent and fixing imaginaries and narratives. We propose this edition of Guest Room as a field of visibility that reveals something previously unseen or unconscious – an oversight, whether personal or social – or that allows what was latent or hidden to emerge.

In this sense, our proposal seeks to explore the nature of the image from its margins, memory, time, and collective imaginaries. This opens up the possibility of exploring the relationship between image and text, the visible and the invisible, different strategies for concealing or revealing layers of reality, as well as reinterpretations of archives."

Memories that persist and others that fade. Absences that refuse to surrender their place in History. Stories hidden between walls and silences. Dominant narratives that collapse, and fictions that help us make sense of the world. What was revealed in response to our invitation to explore what (dis)appears? Some of the selected works shed light on what had remained hidden: forms of social and structural violence, denied truths, subjectivities that demand recognition, and mechanisms of manipulation. Others invite us to pause and attend to the minuscule, the fragile, the unnoticed.

Still other projects call attention to what is losing visibility through erosion, forgetfulness, or deliberate erasure: memories worn down by time or illness, devastated territories, and fallen figures of power. And among all these gestures, new narratives emerge: proposals that, through fiction or material exploration, question the image itself and return us to questions about photography and the act of looking."

Selection

    • Elizabeth Casasola, From "Author", Mexico City, Mexico, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Elizabeth Casasola, From "Author", Mexico City, Mexico, 2023
    • Irina Cheremisina, From "WHERE IS MY HOME NOW?", Betera, Spain, 2025 | DER GREIF
      Irina Cheremisina, From "WHERE IS MY HOME NOW?", Betera, Spain, 2025
    • Thomas Kutschker, From ""d/m/w – Nachbilder / AfterImages", Germany | DER GREIF
      Thomas Kutschker, From ""d/m/w – Nachbilder / AfterImages", Germany
    • Carlos Barradas, Untitled, Madrid, Spain, 2025 | DER GREIF
      Carlos Barradas, Untitled, Madrid, Spain, 2025
    • Jeremy Borger, Untitled, Berlin, Germany, 2025 | DER GREIF
      Jeremy Borger, Untitled, Berlin, Germany, 2025
    • Visule Kabunda, Untitled, Lusaka, Zambia, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Visule Kabunda, Untitled, Lusaka, Zambia, 2024
    • Aldo Cervantes, "Altar de Memorias No. 2", Calexico, CA, United States of America, 2025 | DER GREIF
      Aldo Cervantes, "Altar de Memorias No. 2", Calexico, CA, United States of America, 2025
    • Andrej Verzola, From "The sorrows of this field are yours", Georgia | DER GREIF
      Andrej Verzola, From "The sorrows of this field are yours", Georgia
    • Viviana Peretti, From "Searching for Lost Lives", Bogotá, Colombia, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Viviana Peretti, From "Searching for Lost Lives", Bogotá, Colombia, 2024
    • Christopher Berwing, From "Between", Georgia, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Christopher Berwing, From "Between", Georgia, 2024
    • Maria Quigley, "TV Prints", St Petersburg, Russian Federation, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Maria Quigley, "TV Prints", St Petersburg, Russian Federation, 2024
    • Mumin Gul, From "Withering Face of Power", Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Mumin Gul, From "Withering Face of Power", Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2024
    • Alejandra Leyva, From "When we disappeared", Guadalajara, Mexico, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Alejandra Leyva, From "When we disappeared", Guadalajara, Mexico, 2023
    • Sergio Meléndez Cava, "Familia", Lima, Peru, 2025 | DER GREIF
      Sergio Meléndez Cava, "Familia", Lima, Peru, 2025
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      Érika Vitela, "Es Raro", Mexico, 2024
    • Katya Selezneva, "Archive II", Sarov, Russian Federation | DER GREIF
      Katya Selezneva, "Archive II", Sarov, Russian Federation
    • Kei Ito, From "To Implore Your Light", Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, United States of America | DER GREIF
      Kei Ito, From "To Implore Your Light", Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, United States of America
    • Bogdan Gulyay, Wedding album, found in a destroyed by bomb apartment building, Chernihiv, Ukraine, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Bogdan Gulyay, Wedding album, found in a destroyed by bomb apartment building, Chernihiv, Ukraine, 2022
    • Alexandre Morvan, From "Espaces Fantômes", Paris, France | DER GREIF
      Alexandre Morvan, From "Espaces Fantômes", Paris, France
    • Xanthe Hutchinson, "A4(2)", UK, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Xanthe Hutchinson, "A4(2)", UK, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 2020
    • Roberto Tondopó, From "On body and soul (OBAS): Genealogía del silencio trans", Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico, 1991 | DER GREIF
      Roberto Tondopó, From "On body and soul (OBAS): Genealogía del silencio trans", Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico, 1991
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