Photography exhibition: that your brain will not damage your life.

Spain, March of 2013.- the exhibition that your brain will not damage your life ”, which Eduard Gandia i Orts is author, is carried out by institutional agreement between the La Fe Hospital and the Foundation FIVAN.

FIVAN Foundation was founded in 2004 with the aim of improving the quality of life for people with brain injury and their families, through the search for new methods, new tools, new knowledge, new points of view, etc. Throughout these years the Foundation FIVAN has become international reference in terms of innovation in caring for people with brain damage acquired, to their families, in the training of professionals in this field, as well as the advice and research in the field of Neurorehabilitation.

Eduardo Gandia i Orts, fond of photography and author of the images that make up the exhibition, knows what means live with brain damage, after suffering a stroke on 12 November 2011, which caused him physical, psychological and cognitive limitations his mother. From that day on the family’s life changed.

With this exhibition Eduardo wants to thank you life this new opportunity. For this reason, contacted the Foundation FIVAN, who has supported the project.

poster of the exhibition.

For Eduard, the project arises from the artistic need to transmit this disease nor any other assume the end of life, but the beginning of a new opportunity to continue living.

In the words of the author himself, this is the exhibition that had never wanted to do, because that would mean that my mother would have not suffered any brain damage, but life changes the script when you least expect it. Even so, with this sample images I wanted to talk about hope, confidence, effort and motivation, thanks to life for this second chance ”.

It is a mainly emotional photography exhibition, where the feelings that transmits each photograph are above its more or less elaborate photographic technique.

The exhibition features

It is a photographic exhibition with 26 images in black and white and mounted on foamboard, intending to capture the effort and hope to people who have suffered an acquired brain injury. The images are accompanied by explanatory texts and messages referred to them, messages of hope, of struggle, of life.

The photographs are placed in various light iron brackets specifically designed for this purpose. He is a total of 8 structures, composed by two vertical posts of metal (250 cm high), on which rests a metal bar horizontal (as a clothesline), between 170 cm and 300 cm long, on which van hung different images, avoiding thereby acting upon the walls of the Center. These drying photos represent the life to which are hanging photographs, symbolizing, somehow, the little things that keep us hooked or hung ” to life.

Photographs have already been exhibited in the Centre of research Prince Felipe in Valencia (IPPC), during the celebration of the II International Symposium on Neurorehabilitation, as well as in the Aguas Vivas Hospital and at the House of culture of the city of Xàtiva. And from March 9 on April 11, 2013 will be in the Hospital La Fe.

For the La Fe hospital, the author has completed the sample with 15 new images that are intended to make us reflect on the importance of life, take advantage of every moment, mainly appreciate those little things that we give away each day.