Until 27 March, Casa Árabe in Madrid is presenting the exhibition Fábulas y banderas evanescentes (Fables and evanescent flags), by photographer Ana Nance, in which she focuses her personal gaze on countries such as Sudan, Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Morocco and Algeria.
Ana Nance (USA, 1969) has been travelling for 30 years and has visited more than 80 countries working for national and international publications such as El País Semanal, Marie Claire, Wall Street Journal, Icon, Vogue, Conde Nast Traveler, The New York Times and National Geographic Travel. Parallel to these commissions, he has been developing a personal work that has given rise to a large archive of photographs that concentrates his personal view of these countries and places. An unprejudiced gaze, which seeks an approach to other worlds and cultures and tries to go beyond the common places that often hide much richer and more complex realities.
The selection of photographs presented in the exhibition were taken between 2012 and 2021 and attempt to break with the stereotypes that are often projected onto this part of the world. It does not pretend to be an exhaustive immersion in the different social realities of these countries, nor in their problems, but aims to affirm their cultural richness. And it does so through fragments, details of their architecture, landscape, objects of everyday life, of what often escapes our gaze when it passes over things in a cursory manner.
