The Brown sister by Nicholas Nixon in the Mapfre Hay Festival Alhambra of Granada

FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE and the Patronato de la Alhambra y el Generalife have presented today, 6 May, the exhibition of Nicholas Nixon: The Brown sisters. Collections FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE, which could be visit until June 7 in the Chapel of the Palace of Carlos V (Monumental Complex of the Alhambra).
The exhibition shows a series of 34 photographs that Nicholas Nixon has taken from 1975 to the present. In these pictures, he portrays his wife Bebe and his sisters-in-law Mimi, Laurie and Heather looking fixedly at the lens and in the same order. The photographs transmit the sensation of being attending at one scene that, in turn, is loaded with profound universal meanings: naturalness, vulnerability and the unavoidable passage of time.
From the formal point of view, the photographs stand out for their precision and for their tonal richness; contemplated as a series, they turn into instants of balance within an incessant process of transformation. The nostalgia provoked by the photography because of its aptitude to stop the time, occupies an important place in these series.
During the exhibition, the Director of the Patronato de la Alhambra y el Generalife indicated that “presenting this gallery of portraits now, as metaphor of the passage of the time in the Alhambra, is an occasion to show the relationship between the history of an exceptional monumental complex developed over centuries, and the photographic sequence of a human history ”
Furthermore, Pablo Jiménez Burillo emphasized the great importance of these series in the history of the contemporary photography, which acquisition in 2007 supposed the introduction of the collections of photography in FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE.
Nixon will also take part in Hay Festival, in a conference about The Brown sisters and the rest of his work with Pablo Jiménez Burillo (FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE), Manuel Rodríguez Rivero (cultural critic) and Carlos Gollonet (specialist in photography). (Friday, 8 May, from 7 p.m to 8 p.m in the Carmen de los Mártires).