Open Theme nominee

Era mentira (it was a lie) raises a reflection on the moldability of memory and how we interpret the memories lived or recounted to generate new stories from a personal fiction.

The project arose when I found an old 8mm tape at my parents’ house and digitized it. Then I rediscover a film in which my mother collaborated when I was twenty years old. I capture some frames of the making-of and freeze it on them. The project speaks of losses: the loss of image quality, the loss of my mother. Losses and fragments of his memory and mine.

After finding the old tape, I began to investigate my father’s photographic archive, discovering never-developed negatives with images of my mother before my birth. I find myself in front of a stranger and I begin to build her character from an alien, foreign look. In this way, I design my own scenario, fictionalizing a spatio-temporal rupture based on Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, which stated that in the same real space apparently incompatible spaces in time could be juxtaposed.

In the project I combine archival photographs with my own images, taken today of the few objects I have left of my mother.

Carol Galiñanes is a visual artist and photographer. In 2018 she studied Photography at PHOTOESPAÑA's PIC.A school and has been complementing her training as a photographer doing numerous workshops with photographers such as Sofía Moro, Jorge Fuembuena, Jorquera or Elisa Miralles.


She also has a degree in Graphic Design from the School of Design in Madrid and studied Art History at the Universidad Autónoma. She also completed a Master's Degree in Research and Creation at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of the same city.


His artistic work is focused on photographic proposals of suxestive authors and multimedia pieces; as well as on experimental artistic projects around the photobook and the relationship between photography and design. The latter were exhibited in prestigious centers such as Matadero de Madrid, Casa Encendida, Museo do Romanticismo or Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Spain.


His projects, registered in the emerging artistic field, stand out for their markedly experimental character. In november 2021, she received a LUX award in the Junior category granted by the Association of Professional Photographers of Spain (AFPE) and was selected for the DISCOVERY PHOTOESPAÑA 2022. In October 2019 she was preselected to apply for a