Guest Room: Jo. Trujillo Argüelles & María Santoyo

Guest Room aims to inspire collaboration and creative exchange. In this edition, Jo. Trujillo Argüelles, former Director of the Centro de la Imagen, partners with María Santoyo, director of PHotoESPAÑA.

Together, they introduce the theme for your submissions:

"What (Dis)Appears"

"What do you overlook when you look?
And what do we miss together?
Why does it remain unseen?"

As in the darkroom, between developer and fixer, photography is a space for manifesting the latent and fixing imaginaries and narratives. We propose this edition of Guest Room as a field of visibility that reveals something previously unseen or unconscious – an oversight, whether personal or social – or that allows what was latent or hidden to emerge.

In this sense, our proposal seeks to explore the nature of the image from its margins, memory, time, and collective imaginaries. This opens up the possibility of exploring the relationship between image and text, the visible and the invisible, different strategies for concealing or revealing layers of reality, as well as reinterpretations of archives."

"Face-to-Face" Portfolio Feedback Session Prize

In addition to being considered for publication, 10 selected artists under 30 will be invited to participate in a special edition of Der Greif’s portfolio review program, "Face-to-Face."

Led by guest reviewer Jo, each selected artist will receive a 20-minute one-on-one feedback session focused on ongoing projects and future development.

Please note: Der Greif will select the 10 participants for this session based on the open call submissions. Priority will be given to emerging artists under 30 who are currently working on a body of work.