“Behind the Curtain | North Korea“

The photographic project Talent Latent is the exhibition strand of the SCAN festival, and one of its pillars. The objective of the exhibition is to serve as a platform for artists at the beginning of their artistic career.

The present edition has been commissioned by Cristina Zelich, and the selected works are by Alejandro Chaskielberg, Laura Cuch, Amaury da Cunha, Lucia Ganieva, Ignacio García Gómez del Valle, Tomas van Houtryve, Sirio Magnabosco, Javier Marquerie Thomas, Rafal Milach, Gemma Pardo, Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine, Ángel de la Rubia, Ahmet Unver and Jorge Yeregui.

The photographs in Tomas van Houtryve’s exhibition were taken in 2007 and 2008, during two trips to North Korea, the country with the most impenetrable totalitarian regime in the world. Posing as an industrialist, the artist was able to visit and discretely photograph scenes previously undocumented by a Western photographer. Despite being monitored at every moment and subjected to interrogation by government minders, his photos offer a rare peek inside this starkly isolated country.

7 May – 5 July, 2009
Tarragona Central Market
Plaça Corsini, s/n
43003 Tarragona
Spain
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2 October – 29 November, 2009
Arts Santa Mònica
Rambla de Santa Mònica, 7
08001 Barcelona
Spain
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