Contemporary photography expanded through performance, photogrammetry, video, staged image, visual narrative, and digital/physical experimentation.

Ain’t that just like me? is a group exhibition that asks how we respond to a troubled present with awareness, sensitivity, and responsibility. Inspired by Donna Haraway’s idea of “response-ability”, the show explores how personal and collective conflicts become part of us — and how artists turn that internal tension into images.

The exhibition brings together photography-based practices that move beyond the single image, exploring how bodies, landscapes, identities, and relationships are transformed by contemporary tensions.

The exhibition moves through:

• Trauma and contemporary anxiety
• Bodies and landscapes transformed by crisis
• Family bonds in tension
• Transitory identities
• The impossibility of motherhood
• Gentrification, isolation, and environmental degradation
• The fragile relationship between physical and digital realities

if you’re interested in photography as a tool for emotional and social reflection.

Because this exhibition is not only about documenting the world. It is about asking how we are implicated in it. The title becomes a moment of recognition: the problem stops being external and becomes personal — something we carry, repeat, resist, or transform.

It also matters because the show creates an intergenerational dialogue between established and emerging artists, connecting two spaces — Cámara Oscura and El Local — to rethink the future of contemporary photography.

Don’t read the exhibition as one single story — move through it as a constellation of responses

Pay attention to how photography touches other media: performance, video, digital processes, staging

Ask what each image is responding to: trauma, environment, body, family, identity, place

Notice the emotional shift when a social problem becomes intimate

Visit both venues if possible — the dialogue between spaces is part of the project