Photo London 2026

Rolf Art exhibition proposal for Photo London presents a solo show by Argentine artist Santiago Porter (Buenos Aires, 1971), offering an overview of his artistic production from 1993 to the present. The exhibition project brings together a careful selection of his early, small-format photographic works — intimate and deeply personal — from the renowned series Piezas (1993–2003), previously exhibited in a solo presentation at Paris Photo 2024 and at Atlas, Paris, France 2024. These works are placed in dialogue with his iconic large-scale landscapes from the series Bruma (2005–2017), presented in 2021 at the Festival Les Rencontres d’Arles. This survey culminates in his most recent body of work, Donde nunca haya estado (2021–2026), a series that explores the boundaries of the image, where painting emerges over photography as a new and significant expressive resource, opening up a territory previously unexplored in Porter’s artistic practice.

Santiago Porter (Buenos Aires, 1971) has worked consistently through photography and painting, exploring the profound and sensitive relationship between the appearance of things and their history. In his images, traces—both personal and private, public and collective—reveal that nothing and no one ever completely disappears. Through research transformed into quiet observation, Porter records the imprint of existence embedded in material realities, reflecting on memory, time, and history. He has been honored with the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Konex Award in Visual Arts, among other distinctions. His work is included in major international collections and museums, such as the J. Paul Getty Museum (United States), The Jewish Museum (New York), the J.P. Morgan Chase Collection (United States), the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Argentina), among other important institutions.