Biography

Ricardo Ocaña

Grenade (Spain)

Visual artist and independent researcher whose practice lies at the intersection of image, technology and critical thought. His work combines artistic practice with research into contemporary photography and the creation of images using artificial intelligence. Through photography, the diaporama and generative artificial intelligence, he examines the loss of photography as evidence and explores the role of the image in shaping identity, perceptions of reality and political discourse.

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

His work has been selected for several competitions, including the Ciudad de Badajoz Awards and the Certamen d’Arts Plàstiques La Constancia, and he has been a finalist in Kursala 100 (University of Cádiz). He has also exhibited in institutions such as the Luis de Morales Museum (Badajoz), the Centre d’Art Sa Quartera (Inca, Mallorca) and the Yila’ob Cultural Centre (Mexico).

He is the author of several articles on the contemporary image published in specialised academic journals. Within this theoretical framework, he has proposed the term “inagraphy” to define still images generated by artificial intelligence as a new category within the visual arts.

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 is an exhibition space, whose name comes from the union of the Spanish words «espejo» (mirror) and «ventana» (window)

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