TWENTYSIX (ABANDONED) GASOLINE STATIONS. IÑAKI BERGERA

Iñaki Bergera discovered on a trip to the West Coast of the United States a desolate landscape, apparently barren, that oozed beauty. The beauty of the everyday. Its narrative purity. Service stations that, dismantled at the beginning of the 90s, gave way to the services of multinationals.

MASTERCLASS APRIL 25 19.30H

INAUGURATION APRIL 25 8.30 P.M.

"Whatever power there is in images is tied to the closeness with which they are missing from banality."

Robert Adams

Abandoned gas stations. In ruins. Faded icons but living witnesses of a time gone by. Iñaki Bergera discovered on a trip along the West Coast of the United States a desolate landscape, apparently barren, that oozed beauty. The beauty of the everyday. Its narrative purity. Service stations that, dismantled at the beginning of the 90s, gave way to the services of multinationals.

Through a series of 26 images, the photographer gives voice to these unmapped territories, to their architectural structures, while paying tribute to Ed Ruscha's pop art. There is no documentary pretension and yet, with his aesthetics and forms, he narrates open areas of the contemporary crisis.

IÑAKI BERGERA

Iñaki Bergera holds a degree and PhD in Architecture from the University of Navarra. In 2001, he studied a Master's degree at Harvard School of Visual Arts with British photographer Chris Killip, where he also attended a course in Architectural Photography taught by Gerry Kepelow. Since then, he has focused his career on architectural photography, both in the practical and teaching fields.

He has visited international institutions such as the CCA in Montreal, the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona, Columbia University and the International Center of Photography in New York. The results of his research, in turn, have been presented at numerous conferences and published in books and journals. His series have also been published in international media such as Casabella, A10, The Architects' Journal, Detalle, Arquitectura Viva, Baunetz and ArchDaily.