18 Dec García-Alix, speaker at Hay Festival Forum Sevilla 2025

The photographer Alberto García-Alix participates in the Hay Festival Forum Sevilla 2025, which will be held from February 12 to 15, 2025 in various venues in the Andalusian capital and in which up to 25 conferences and events will be held covering literature, architecture, photography, environment and other topics.

Absence as a Stimulus is a new production by National Photography Prize-winner Alberto García-Alix. In the event, designed to be a type of visual conference, the author reflects on how absence, in its existence and as a vitalising stimulus, influences and is reflected in his work, and acts as a guiding thread and catalyst in his photographs. García-Alix presents 68 images, most of them unpublished, taken over the last 15 years, interspersed with his own narrative. The photographer reflects on how absence is present in everything we encounter: in nature, in architecture, in objects and even in portraiture “because something always escapes us from the model“. In the words of the author, absence is a stimulus.

The event will be moderated by Dr. Jimena Blázquez Abascal, director of Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC). At the end, Ricardo León Moro, with long experience in the field of cultural management and exhibition curatorship, will introduce some questions.

More information at: Hay Festival Forum Sevilla 2025.

Date: Thursday, 13th February 2025. 19.15 h.

Place: Conference hall of Pabellón Real, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC). Seville (Spain).