Edgar dos Santos

CAT / ESP / ENG

I’m documentary photographer, visual artist and lecturer. Co-founder at Documentary Agency Zoom www.agenciazoom.com. Actually, I teach photography at the Art School of Lleida.

My work focuses on the relationship we establish with the environment, the interactions and mutual affectations, and those linked to the processes of apprehension, use and representation of space / territory / landscape. I am interested in how this environment is perceived, digested and returned. Which is the nature of what we see and how we give it a meaning or value. The space from its physical and social way but also as a mental construction. In these works, I alternate staging with documentary style approaches

At the same time, I have been developing other types of participatory work. At first these actions had a playful nature, an option that always tries to be present, but over time these have been directed towards sensitive social realities. Taking into account the context and the specific group, a series of actions and interventions are proposed, generally of a critical and public nature, that contribute to the empowerment of the group, and to the visibility and reflection of the problems associated with these vulnerable groups.

I’ve exhibited in London: AA Gallery, Madrid: Galería Cero, Caixa Forum, Barcelona: Arts Santa Monica, Homesession, Caixa Forum, Lleida: Center d’Art La Panera, France: Musée Terrus d’Elne, and Ghana: NKA Foundation. I’ve done several artistic residencies: Caza d’Oro (Occitania, FR), Farrera Art and Nature Center (Catalunya, ESP), NKA Foundation (Ashanti, GHANA). I’ve obtained several scholarships for "Art for social improvement" (Obra social la Caixa), "Crea Intermedia Producción" (Dept. of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya), "Art, science and ecology" (Euroregional Art and Ecology Program) among other. I’ve won or been a finalist in the calls: Fotograf Festival and magazine “Uneven Ground”, II Forum Can Basté, FotoPress La Caixa (finalist), Discoveries PhotoEspaña 2021 and 2011 (finalist), Fundación Vila Casas (finalist).