REGIÓN. Landscape, photography and heritage.

El Águila Hall. Community of Madrid
February 8th – May 7th, 2023

REGIÓN. Landscape, photography and heritage.
Collective exhibition

Artistic Director: Paco Gómez
Scientific Director: Mónica Luengo
Technical Director: David Rejano.

Misión Región is a project of the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sports of the Community of Madrid.

During the first half of 2022, 17 female and 16 male photographers explored the Community of Madrid with the aim of generating a large archive of photographs of the Madrilenian landscape from a heritage point of view.

199 zones of the region’s territory were defined: 178 municipalities and 21 districts of the city of Madrid, in order to guarantee the best possible image of Madrid’s diverse landscape. Each photographer was responsible for six locations, each of the zones being equally represented by 10 snapshots, forming a photographic collection of 1990 images that have become part of the Regional Archive of the Community of Madrid, thus enriching the region’s heritage at the service of all citizens.

Misión Región has been an unprecedented project, not only because of the number of photographers involved, but also because of its patrimonial perspective; seeking a contemporary vision of the landscape beyond geographical or aesthetic features, but as a testimony of social customs and economic structures, of transmitted traditions and trends, of unequal urban development and the advance of rural depopulation, among other multiple realities. Misión Región is a current portrait of our way of understanding and relating to the world, forming a series of spaces with their own identity.

Artistic Director: Paco Gómez
Scientific Director: Mónica Luengo
Technical Director: David Rejano.
Misión Región is a project of the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sports of the Community of Madrid.