BARCELONA, SPAIN.-The Joan Miró Foundation is presenting an exhibition by Laura Henno as part of the Once upon a time... cycle selected by Marie-Thérèse Champesme and Pascale Pronnier. The exhibition will be held in parallel with the one by Sebastián Díaz Morales and will be in Room 14. Laura Henno (Lille, 1976) is showing a series of 13 photographs taken during the time she spent at Le Fresnoy after having studied Fine Arts and specialised in photography.

Her photographs show frozen instants in which figures, normally teenagers, seem to be subjected to a mysterious, invisible force. The artist is particularly interested in the relationship between figure and space, and combines portraiture and landscape in her work.

In the “Bed” series, this landscape is the teenager’s room that reveals their fragility at the time of the physical changes they are undergoing. The images show the young girls shut off from the world, dreamy and wistful. They are figures taken from a story, but in fact the viewer knows nothing about them and in some cases cannot even see their faces in the gloom.

The landscapes, in which no human beings are present, could also be said to be waiting for something to happen, or concealing a life that the viewer is unable to understand.

Laura Henno’s work does not attempt to show the personality of the beings that people her photographs; on the contrary, it leaves all anecdote aside in order to preserve intact the mystery of the space and the people in it.