Antonio Guerra

In projects such as Ver de acción, intervention and staging question the apparent naturalness of what we see. Guerra examines landscape as a cultural construction: an image shaped by our position, the procedures used to produce it and the conventions we learn to recognize. His installations and three-dimensional work extend this inquiry into space, where the viewer’s experience becomes part of how the work is read.

Cielo abierto, presented at the Centro Niemeyer in 2020, connects the alteration of a mining landscape with the breakdown of its representation. Guerra made the photographs using a damaged memory card, whose errors interrupt the image’s continuity. Technical malfunction therefore takes an active role in the work, exposing the distance between a place, its recording and what a photograph allows us to understand.

The relationship between extraction, matter and image continues in Elevar la tierra, desaparecer, a project combining photography and sculptural approaches to examine territories transformed by mining. In 2025 this research received first prize at Ankaria Photo. Umbral Mineral, presented at the Instituto Cervantes in Lisbon in 2026, brings together works associated with Fabero, Riotinto and Covas do Barroso, extending his inquiry into the geological, social and environmental consequences of extraction.

La luz que nos ciega introduces a more intimate dimension. Exhibited at the University of Cádiz’s Sala Kursala in 2021 and published by Dalpine and La Kursala in 2022, the project explores inland Spain’s rural environment through memory, loss and vulnerability. Animals, figures and landscapes form a narrative shaped by tensions between personal experience, myth and knowledge. In 2022 Guerra received Fundación ENAIRE’s Young Photography Award.

During his 2025 residency at Matadero Madrid, Guerra developed Una tarea para la eternidad, researching the traces of the chemical industry in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany. His interest in residues, water and altered soils also appears in Altlast, presented in 2026 with the Recoletas Visual Art Creation Grant. These investigations place photography within the material processes it examines and address the lasting consequences of industrial production.

His career brings together solo exhibitions, artistic development programs and group projects in Spain and other European countries. Selected by PHotoESPAÑA for FUTURES in 2021, he later participated in ENERGY at Budapest’s Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center. The Community of Madrid acquired his work for the CA2M collection in 2020, and the University of Cádiz records La luz que nos ciega in its holdings.