Pere Formiguera Cronos __link__ Jun 2026

Upon its first major exhibition at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) in the early 1990s, Cronos was hailed as a landmark of conceptual photography. Critics compared it to the work of Joan Fontcuberta (with whom Formiguera later collaborated) and the films of David Lynch or the writings of Borges—all dealing with the slippage between reality and representation.

At its core, Cronos explores themes of:

Cronos is a conceptual photography and mixed-media project created by Spanish photographer Pere Formiguera (1952–2013) in collaboration with writer and artist Manuel Cusachs-Ferrer. The work is presented as a pseudo-archaeological, pseudo-scientific dossier documenting a fictional creature, an "unknown zoological specimen" named Cronos . pere formiguera cronos

By showing the aging process of children into adults and the gentle transformations of the elderly, Formiguera turned photography into a medium of motion rather than a mere snapshot. Upon its first major exhibition at the Museu