In the last decade, Alex Llovet's work has been structured around two main thematic axes: identity and memory . Exploring the photobook as a format to conceptualize and present her projects, increasingly centered on her immediate environment -the couple, the children and the territory she inhabits-, she has managed to generate her own universe where the photographic document and the poetic image are intertwined and question each other. constantly.
Can you miss something that is still happening? This is the starting point of "Summer's Almost Gone", a hundred images taken during the summers of 2016 to 2021 in different places in England and Spain, which make up his particular family summer vacation album. In these periods of contact with nature, synonymous with freedom, discovery and play, but also with challenges, growth and confrontation with one's own ghosts, Llovet appeals to the transience of life while questioning the limitations of photographic practice in the face of frustration of not being able to be an actor and a spectator at the same time .
If memory builds the autobiographical story from unconnected fragments, filling in the gaps with our imagination, the edition of this work, more sensory than reasoned, does the same through 24 sequences structured in the form of quadriptychs of images that behave as vertical stills from a mockumentary, the one about the author's life . After six years of work and five different models, this book represents the formal culmination of a poetic and conceptual investigation where the layout evokes the functioning of memory itself: veiled images, moments that we barely remember, pages that the reader must unfold to look out the windows of the past.
Accompanying the images, the poetic prose of the writer Lara Moreno puts herself in the shoes of the photographer to weave a subtle parallel narrative from the vestiges of those summers.
Photography, concept and editing: Alex Llovet
