Matalascañas – financial crisis revisited
Photographs, analog, 2017
Digital print, 110x75 cm and tablet presentation
Matalascañas is a ghost town: streets end in the middle of nowhere, half of its buildings are empty and decaying,and many owners of its remaining
properties are desperate to sell their houses.
„Matalascañas – financial crisis revisited“ originates in 2012 and was photographed in a Spanish holiday resort at the Atlantic Ocean, which was
built in the '70s as a new town to meet the demands of internal Spanish tourism. In 2008 Matalascañas was hit by the financial crisis, like so
many other places in Spain. Over night the buildings under construction became ruins. Those unfinished buildings became memorials for a
capitalism that forced people to pay off their debts for buildings that wouldn't ever be built and whose banks emerged from the crisis
strengthened due to government grants. Nonetheless some people still choose to spend their holidays in Matalascañas, because they aren't
able or willing to sell their houses.
UPCOMING
June 2021
Berlin, Germany
18.-20.06.2021
Installation of the photo series
"Matalascañas - Oh so solid all that air!"
at the festival
48 Hours Neukölln.
18.-20.06. at the yard of
Endorphina, Elsenstr.52, 2. backyard, Berlin
January 2018
Berlin
07.01.2018
Closing of the exhibition
SEEN BY #9
Group show with two series of photographs by Dan Dansen:
"Matalascañas - Financial crisis revisited" and
"Brutalism - Filmstills from Horror Movies"
18:00 Closing
At
Museum of Photography, Jebensstraße 2, Berlin
Exhibition from 27.10.2017 - 07.01.2018
October 2017
Berlin
27.10.2017
Opening of the exhibition
SEEN BY #9
Group show with two series of photographs by Dan Dansen:
"Matalascañas - Financial crisis revisited" and
"Brutalism - Filmstills from Horror Movies"
19:00 Vernissage
At
Museum of Photography, Jebensstraße 2, Berlin
Exhibition from 27.10.2017 - 07.01.2018