Sophie Köhler (Essen, Germany, 1977), winner of the Fundació Vila Casas Photography Prize 2020, presents a photographic and sound project that explores the impact that art has on people who are exposed to it for eight hours a day: museum attendants.
This audiovisual project immerses us in the rooms of some of the most important museums in Barcelona – the Fundació Tàpies, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC), Fundació MAPFRE and the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) – seeking a new perspective. Köhler flips the direction of the gaze and gives a voice and face to the museum attendants, a group staff who are invisible to most even though they are the...
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