“Post-photography hides behind the photograph, which becomes the simple facade of a building whose interior structure has been comple- tely remodelled”
Joan Fontcuberta

In the face of all the profusion of digital photographic images at glo- bal level, a culture that the Catalan artist and theoretician Joan Fon- tcuberta called “post-photography” began to emerge, which is nothing more than photography applied to online life. Within this same idea, the- re is a re ection of several artists regarding the need to stop saturating the contemporary visual world with more and more images, throu- gh which an idea of recycling, appropriation or, as Fontcuberta says, to “adopt” already existing images in order to give them a new meaning wi- thin contemporary plastic projects.

This idea of post-photography is also very close to what Clément Chéroux calls “vernacular photography”, which starts with archival images usually without artistic purpose, but when an artist decontextualizes and inserts them into a contemporary art project, giving it a new meaning, they cease to be utilitarian images to become vernacular. This exhibition is based on exercises carried out in photography classes with the post-photographic and vernacular theme, held by students from Ponti cal Xavierian Univer- sity and the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.

Juan Alonso, curator