Joan Fontcuberta: What Darwin Missed

In the organizer's words:

The exhibition Joan Fontcuberta: What Darwin Missed presents a new series of around 60 works specially conceived for the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation by the internationally renowned Catalan photographer, curator, essayist and lecturer Joan Fontcuberta (*1955). The artist is known for his play with the public and the boundaries between reality and fiction. In his works, he reflects on the role of photography in the representation of reality and has repeatedly taken a critical but always humorously provocative look at the image in scientific disciplines such as botany and zoology. Joan Fontcuberta has been working artistically with unusual and scientific phenomena since the 1980s. Ehrhardt's photographs of corals fascinate him, among other things, because these strange zoological formations were mistaken for hybrid species from the plant and mineral kingdoms. Fontcuberta's photographs testify that we need to rethink our approaches to understanding the origin and diversity of life on earth.