Photographer Mariona Giner presents Gypsy culture and traditions in Catalan, Sevillian and English communities in the exhibition “Mariona Giner: Family portrait” which is being shown from 19 February to 13 April 2009 in the “Photographer’s Window” of the Palau Robert in Barcelona.
The exhibition “Mariona Giner: Family portrait” uses photography to link different cultural projects that relate the aforementioned communities to each other. As Mariona Giner explains, this linking “is reflected in the image, but especially transcends beyond the exhibition”. In the show, the photographer also explores the role of the family by means of different cultural behaviour in the three Romany communities and the links that unite the social cores of all three.
According to Mariona Giner, the title of the selection, “Family portrait”, “refers to the domestic setting as a place where we ought to be ourselves without worrying about what others may think or say. It is in this context where I find people to be at their most private, dressed up or dressed down, relaxing or celebrating, tired or working, happy or angry.... in sum, in situations we all go through”.
Mariona Giner has been fascinated by what distinguishes people but also makes them similar at the same time since her childhood in England, the country where she was born. After studying photography in Barcelona, she specialised in photojournalism. Between 1992 and 1997, she explored the formal language of photojournalism with work on different Gypsy families who lived in huts on the outskirts of Mataró, as well as on female inmates in Wad-Ras prison in Barcelona. Between 1997 and 2001 she returned to England to study Fine Arts with a growing interest in social and photographic stereotypes, and this has helped her to develop a more conceptual discourse related with ideals of behaviour and the physical presentation of people and their surroundings. In addition to her photographic work, in 2008 she directed a documentary film on the 40-year history of the jazz group La Locomotora Negra, which is set to debut this year.
Mariona Giner has been fascinated by what distinguishes people but also makes them similar at the same time since her childhood in England, the country where she was born. After studying photography in Barcelona, she specialised in photojournalism. Between 1992 and 1997, she explored the formal language of photojournalism with work on different Gypsy families who lived in huts on the outskirts of Mataró, as well as on female inmates in Wad-Ras prison in Barcelona. Between 1997 and 2001 she returned to England to study Fine Arts with a growing interest in social and photographic stereotypes, and this has helped her to develop a more conceptual discourse related with ideals of behaviour and the physical presentation of people and their surroundings. In addition to her photographic work, in 2008 she directed a documentary film on the 40-year history of the jazz group La Locomotora Negra, which is set to debut this year.
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