Carles Mercader · El Meu Cor Malparit

The Sergi Sánchez Gallery presents “El meu cor malparit” (My Damned Heart), an exhibition by photographer Carles Mercader (Rubí, 1974). Self-taught, and committed to a radical and uncompromising black and white, Mercader portrays faces, bodies, and streets as if practicing a fiction in which each image is a memento mori. Mercader himself confesses it bluntly: “I am not myself, clearly. I am the others whom I photograph.” He defines himself as a predator who uses the image of other people to speak about himself—and who, with every photograph, appropriates the world “until the world spits in my face and laughs at me.” With that twisted heart of his—a heart that nonetheless enjoys listening to the hearts of others—Mercader turns the portrait into a mirror: looking at another person is his way of looking at himself, and of inventing new faces and new masks.

Roberta Bosco

“Centauromachy“. Analog photography in negative mig 6×6 format. Digital giclée printing with pigmented dyes on Photo Rag Baryta 315g paper.

“Kinbaku”. Analog photography in negative mig 6×6 format. Digital giclée printing with pigmented dyes on Photo Rag Baryta 315g paper.