“Point de vue” shows the disappearance of a holiday resort in Cap de Creus and the picture reflects a landscape being slowly destroyed but which remains in your memory. Just before the demolition of the famous Club Mediterranée, Anna Malagrida photographed the landscape from inside the windows that were painted over in white. The opaque glass frames did not allow people to look outside, so Malagrida scratched off the paint and reinvented photography as a way of recording a hidden exterior landscape.

The past is erased in silence, the white paint hides the landscape and the only traces that remain also disappear, which leads to the title of the work: Point de Vue. This is a play on words that signifies vision at the same time as its absence, an idea and its contrary. Point de Vue refers to the viewer’s general position within the photograph as well as a vision that perishes and no longer offers anything, therefore, no view.

This series demonstrates the inherent paradox in all photography as it reveals at the same time as it hides, while awakening an intimacy by using a play of contrasts such as exterior and interior, photographer and painter, past and present. The images position the viewer as a voyeur, inviting him/her to enter into the artist’s universe of reflections in which viewers can see themselves.