"We are particularly interested in memories. Our aim is to play with viewers' memories and to construct a representation inside their minds. We never know what the final result will be, because individuals have their own exclusive memories and have grown up in different cultures and environments. Our images are the bare bones of this mental construction. There is a gap between reality and what we understand as real. And photography, as Japanese dramatist Chikamatsu once said about art, lies on the frontier between the real and the unreal, the true and the false. Photography helps us to 'see' what is hidden from
us."
Albarrán Cabrera
Angel Albarrán and Anna Cabrera have worked collaboratively as art photographers since 1996. A rich inner philosophy about memory and experience — and a special curiosity for photographic chemistry — guide their aesthetic practice. Influenced by both occidental and oriental thinkers and artists, their photographs question our assumptions of time, place and identity in order to stimulate a new understanding of our own experience and perception. For the artists, “being conscious of our surroundings isn’t just an important part of life — our surroundings and how we interpret them is life as we know it.”