The culture produced in the Balearic Islands over the last hundred years has often addressed the transformation of the territory. This has frequently been a conscious endeavor, as in the case of numerous authors and musicians, from Guillem Frontera to Joana Gomila, including some of the artists who gathered around the Taller Llunàtic. For others, however, establishing this conversation about the changes the islands' landscape has undergone requires the intervention of attentive and engaged observers, as has been the case with researchers and professors at the University of the Balearic Islands, Magdalena Brotons and Maria Sebastián. Since 2020, they have dedicated themselves to uncovering the Mallorcan locations that served as film sets throughout the 20th century, a task that has culminated in the publication of the digital book Mallorca filmed, the transformation of the territory through cinema (Leonario Muntaner, Editor).

It's not common, but sometimes, the pages of the history of a certain discipline record the origin of a passion, a connection with art that began at a specific time and place. This is the case of the Sondra Gilman - Celso González-Falla collection, considered one of the most prestigious photography collections in the world, with more than 1,500 works, and which has its beginnings in a handful of images acquired during the 1970s.

Two apples, side by side, representing the same thing and, at the same time, two very different things: they are accompanied by a handwritten note that says "healthy apple and rotten apple." This is the image chosen to illustrate the exhibition poster. The capture of time, which will open next Friday, September 12, at the Toni Catany International Photography Center in Llucmajor. And it's no coincidence that this was the photograph selected, because it could be one of the still lifes created by the Mallorcan photographer, but it is, in fact, a snapshot taken by Pasqual Maragall (Barcelona, ​​​​1941) shortly after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Photography was an essential tool in his relationship with the early stages of the disease.