Biography

Ricardo Ocaña

Grenade (Spain)

Visual artist and independent researcher. His practice lies at the intersection of contemporary photography, generative technologies and critical thinking, exploring the transformation of the image in digital societies.

Through photography, slideshow projection and generative artificial intelligence, he investigates the erosion of photography’s status as evidence and examines how images shape perceptions of reality, constructions of identity and political imaginaries. His work combines critical enquiry with visual experimentation in order to challenge contemporary systems of representation and the production of truth.

He holds a Master’s degree in Photographic Creation from Pompeu Fabra University and Elisava (Barcelona), and has also undertaken specialised studies in contemporary art and digital practices.

His work has been selected for several awards and competitions, including the Premios Ciudad de Badajoz and the Certamen d’Arts Plàstiques La Constancia, and he was shortlisted for Kursala 100 (University of Cadiz). He has also exhibited at institutions such as the Museo Luis de Morales (Badajoz, Spain), the Centre d’Art Sa Quartera (Mallorca, Spain) and the Centro Cultural Yila’ob (Mexico).

He has published several articles on contemporary image culture, post-photography and generative artificial intelligence. Within this context, he has proposed the term inagraphy to define still images generated by artificial intelligence as a new category within visual art.

Espentana

World Wide Web (Internet)

«The distance between them is to be measured not in terms of the relative force or originality of their work, but in terms of their conceptions of what a photograph is: is it a mirror, reflecting a portrait of the artist who made it, or a window, through which one might better know the world?»

John Szarkowski, 1978 («Mirrors and windows: American photography since 1960», p. 25)


«Espentana» comes from the union of the Spanish words «espejo» (mirror) and «ventana» (window)

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