Jesús Madriñán
Boas Noites
-“Boas Noites” records nightlife in rural villages of Galicia. This series portrays youngsters in countryside nightclubs and documents the nature that surrounds these artifical enviroments. “Boas Noites” treats each of this subjects as part of a community revealing through their portraits all kinds of social and psychological connections. Showing a double reality, composed in part by the manufacture of the sitter in front of the camera, and in part by the involuntariness of infinite messages in their appearance, their gestures and attitudes. Selected archetypes are gathered here in search of a general impression of a space in time.
Born in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in 1984, Jesús Madriñán studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona before moving to the UK and gaining an MA in Photography at Central Saint Martins. Jesús Madriñán has shown his work in several solo exhibitions such as “En Branco”, Auditorio de Galicia, “Looking for Something”, We Are Arts Gallery, London, and “Good Night London”, in the OCEMX, México, and the CCE, Montevideo. Also his work has been included in Photoespaña 2013, the International Photography Awards, and the Latin American Photography Biennial “Fotograma”. Among others, Jesus Madriñán, has been awarded with the 2nd Portrait Prize in the International Photography Awards 2011 of New York, the OCEMX Award from the Spanish Embassy in Mexico, the eCREA Prize in the EMERGENT International Visual Arts Festival 2011 and the Laszlo Foundation Prize of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (UK). Also he has shown his work at the Photomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland) and in publications such as The New York Times Magazine.
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