Tomàquets

The work of the photographer Judit Bou has an unattainable goal: to photograph the growth of each and every one of the tomatoes that her grandfather grows for a year. With an attentive, obstinate focus on this local allotment, Tomàquets tries to unravel what processes are involved in growing tomatoes, working out which ones are visible to the human eye and how the camera can represent them.

The relationships between the elements, the weather conditions and the interventions of multiple living beings give rise to an interdependent network where it is difficult to discern when one substance becomes another. With her chimerical effort to document all the tomatoes on the plants in a constant process of development and ripening, Bou explores the limits of perception and the ways in which photography tries to represent the passage of time.

The project is presented in a matrix that structures the numerous images around the ripening process of the red fruit. The fragmented sum of photographs unfolds in an extensive cartography that is rich in details while rejecting a unique or absolute vision. On the contrary, it suggests that it is in the multiple relationships between the images representing the various times, points of view and fragments that reality can be glimpsed.

Born in Vic, Barcelona, in 1996, Judith Bou Comas graduated in Photography and Contemporary Creation at the School of Image and Design Idep in Barcelona. Her interests focus on thinking and imagining photography’s capacity to explore time. In recent years she has exhibited at the Contemporary Art Center of Vic, Sala Moncunill in Terrasa or at the Biennale de la Jeune Creation Européenne in Montrouge, Hjorring, Césis, Cluj-Napoca, Como, Figueres and Amarante. In 2016 she was selected in Discoveries of the PhotoEspaña Festival, in 2018 she received the Baumanlab grant and in 2020 the Young Art Catalonia Award.

INDOOR EXHIBITION

5 TOMÀQUETS

Venue: Algorta Market
Address: Torrene 4, Algorta