Xavier Ribas - Photographer

MEMORY, URBAN REGENERATION AND PUBLIC ART. OTHER PEOPLE'S PHOTOGRAPHS
Folkestone's Bouverie Place and the strange (cargo) collision of urban regeneration and public art.

Article published in: In Favour of Public Space. Ten Years of the European Prize For Urban Public Space.
Edited by Magda Anglès. ACTAR / CCCB (2010). ISBN 978-84-92861-38-5.

Know more about Other People's Photographs, a project by Strange Cargo in Folkestone, UK.

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TRACES OF NITRATE is a multidisciplinary research on the subject of colonialism and representation. The investigation begins with an album of photographs of a nitrate mine in Chile, sent to Lord Aldenham on the 18th July 1900 “as a souvenir”. The project aims at telling the convulsive story of the British owned nitrate mining industry in Iquique at the time of peak productivity and exploitation, as well as tracing the journey of this album from Chile to London to Spain. It will bring together archive material, contemporary visual work, biographical narratives and critial and historical essays.

A collaboration between the University of Brighton, Fondo Fotográfico Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona), Virreina Centre de la Imatge (Barcelona) and UNIACC (Santiago de Chile).

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Traces / Rastros / Rastres
An exhibition curated by Xavier Ribas

Works by Javier Ayarza, A. Ferrer, Gert Jan Kocken, Ulrich Gebert, Matt Packer, Sven Johne and Lewis Ronald.
Texts by Iain Sinclair and Xavier Ribas. English/Spanish/Catalan, 166 pages. ISBN: 978-84-7800-266-5
Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona (April-July 2009), Centro de Fotografía Universidad de Salamanca (July -December 2009) and Fundación Cajasol, Seville (January-April 2010).

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PDF Text by Xavier Ribas [En] [Cast] [Cat]

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PDF Text by Iain Sinclair [Cast] [Cat]
Link to Iain Sinclair's text in London Review of Books

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Campus en Images. Works by Denis Darzack, Mohamed Bourouissa and Xavier Ribas. CIAM - Université de Toulouse-Mirail, (March-May 2009), UAB, Barcelona (May-July 2009) and Perpignan (Sept-Dec 2009 -Visa pour l'Image).

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La Relève (Half-day Shift) (2008)

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Uncertain Landscape (2006)

Under the direction of Rafael Doctor from the MUSAC, a number of photographers were commissioned to photograph the landscapes of Castilla y León. My guidebook to the land and villages of Castilla y León was an account of the three years pilgrimage, back and forth accross this land from 1506 to 1509, of the Queen Juana of Castilla with her deceased husband King Phillip I in a coffin, a pilgrimage which ended in madness and incarceration.

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Cornelia's Walks. 5 diptychs by Gerard Ribas and Xavier Ribas, Lugo (Italy), January 2009

Read text (English) here and You can see the work here

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F L A G S - Exhibition at Am Nuden Da, 7 Ravenscroft Street, London E2 7SH. Open only 23rd, 24th and 25th Jan 2009

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MANILA

In Manila, strolling through the city is like an act of resistance. The obliteration of public space has been carried out in a systematic and premeditated fashion. The historical quarters have been, continuously neglected, destroyed by infrastructures and traffic so overwhelming that it feels inevitable. Subsistence traders, traders of anything, are only a bearable form of marginalised inhabitation among the smells and fluids exposed to wind and weather. This is an itinerant city a wildland of friction and mysteriously contained latent violence. In this sense, Manila is a model city of globalisation, but of the globalisation of the ‘other’. This unfinished work is the result of a residency in Manila during January and February 2006 organized by Juan Guardiola and Casa Asia.

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Glossy gibt auf - Kunstraum München, Munich, May 2008

The Yang Ming arriving in Rotterdam International Harbour on the 12th Sept 2006. Phone video by Xavier Ribas (3;34 mins) shown at the Glossy Gibt Auf, Kunstraum München in May 2008.

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William Eggleston in Lyon (2001) and Paul Graham in Madrid (2008)
© Xavier Ribas

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Site of the former Golden Coach Diner in Passaic, New Jersey, where Robert Smithson had his lunch "and loaded his Instamatic" on Saturday, September 30, 1967. © Xavier Ribas (2010)

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Jack Goody and Eric J Hobsbawm in Cambridge in July 2009. More than 180 years of life and work between the two and somewhere half of that number in books! And they are still writing...

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Ruins near the borgate in Pasolini's Mamma Roma (1962)

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Bronislaw Malinowski, Ethnographer with a Man in a Wig. Published in Bronislaw Malinowski, The Sexual Life of savages in North-Western Melanesia (1929)

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T H E S C O T T I S H F O L I O ( 2 0 0 8 )
The Scottish Folio by Jesper List Thomsen, Lewis Ronald, Mikael Eliasson, Sam Irons, Jim Cooke, Xavier Ribas

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PROFILE INTERMEDIA, Bremen 2005

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"No rubbish dumping. Respect the memory of the fatal accident"