Anna Bahí (Banyoles, 1972)
Anna Bahí studied graphic design at the Eina School in Barcelona, although her training as a photographer came from a course in photography applied to design, given by Manel Esclusa, from whom she learnt, as well as photographic technique, the language of art. With him she shares pieces that appear to be the product of chance, but Anna Bahí’s output displays a clear sense of artistic intentionality. A thread running through her work from the start is the analysis of self-perception by use of photography.
As Eudald Camps put it, Bahí’s pictures are a kind of “spectral and recursive self-portrait that is constantly drawn and redrawn in an attempt to construct an identity which, as is to be expected, heroically resists the onslaught of her imaginative force.” Her pictures are based on details, fragments which are to be reconstructed from the idea of what we think we know. They display an open lyricism, composed of portions, small poems or verses which introduce us to a universe of sensitivities and subjectivities.