NUÑEZ,ISABEL / NUÑEZ SALMERON, ISABEL
Isabel Núñez takes us along a personal tour of the city with aparticular combination of a search for beauty, a strong criticism ofspeculation and destruction, irony, and nostalgia, which is not of the past, but of lost innocence. And stuck in these itineraries, whetherthey are a fabric of imagination or vibrant, is literature, her ownand that of others, as the infinite carpet of storytellers. Images are not conceived as a photograph, but as the backs of postcards that the author sent and received well before the dawn of the electronic era,when travelling meant adventures and mental disconnection. Her viewsare always subjective, falling under an eventful logic that onlysecret and unconscious reasons could explain. The illustrated prologue by Javier Mariscal adds another way of looking at Barcelona, equallypassionate but definitively different, maybe more evocative, drawing a fine line of convergence. Mariscal is shown here as a having apassion for the history of cities, even if he strives to hide thisunder his ironic humour and exuberant fantasies.
