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We are born crying and all along our lives tears appear in different moments and under various perspectives. Humans can manage to generate between 55 and more than 110 liters of tears a year. In fact, humans are the only animals who shed tears from emotion.
‘Index to tears’ is an ongoing project -both photographic and textual- around everything related to this moment when tears appear.

Index to tears – ongoing

Good Luck with the Future is a journey of infinite paths, with a critical starting point and an uncertain destiny. It began as an exploration on how our generation lives and feels the future, to finish in an attempt to discover how do we perceive it ourselves. The project is about what could be, and what will be, although we do not know yet. What will never be, and also of what has been suddenly, without expecting it

This project is done in collaboration with Dani Pujalte.

Good Luck with the Future

Where Mimosa Bloom traces a walk across the memory. It tries to remember a mother who is no longer here through objects, persons and moments, which take us directly to her person. That’s an homage of Rita to her mother Yolanda. An attempt to assemble in a book her familiar universe.

Where Mimosa Bloom
Why the sky is blue? x Paloma Wool

Ijen is a volcano located in east Java, Indonesia, where you can find one of the last sky opened sulphur mines of the planet. Famous for the blue flames and for his acid lake, we decide to enter in his crater to discover his beauty and the trade of approximately four hundred miners, known for being one of the hardest and dangerous works of the world. These images show the cruelty of a reality in the frame of a supernatural landscape.

This work is done in collaboration with Dani Pujalte.

Kawah Ijen

Horse race journey in the desert of San Luis Potosí.
This work is done in collaboration with Dani Pujalte.

Coneja vs Dulce

Rita Puig-Serra Costa
ritapuigserra@gmail.com
+34 638 39 26 07
Galerie Jacques Cerami
Represented by VOYEUR(s)

NOW!

Hiberticer at Museu Can Mario, with Salvi Danés and David Bestué
Fundació Vila Casas, Palafrugell · 9-6-18 – 25-11-18

Good Luck with the Future, with Dani Pujalte at LoadingFest
Galeria Painel, Porto · 23-7-18 – 29-7-18

Rita lives and works in Barcelona, where she combines personal projects with commercial assignments and her work as an editor for Perdiz magazine. After studying Humanities for her BA and completing a Master’s Degree in Comparative Literature, she studied Graphic Design at IDEP and Photography at CFD School of Photography and El Observatorio. Her first project, Where Mimosa Bloom, was published in 2014 by Editions du Lic. In 2016 she and Dani Pujalte received the 20nd Fotopres La Caixa grant to produce the work Good Luck with the Future. She is now working on a project with Salvi Danés and David Bestué with the support of Terralab.cat.

Awards
2017
Good Luck with the Future finalist at the Voies Off Award
Good Luck with the Future finalist at NexoFoto’17
2016
Good Luck with the Future finalist at Premio de Fotografia Emergente DST at Encontros da Imagem’16
Good Luck with the Future shortlisted 4th at Arles Cosmos PDF Award
Terra-lab.cat grant with Salvi Danés and David Bestué
2015
Grant Fotopres la Caixa 20º edition
Where Mimosa Bloom selected at Festival Circulations
Where Mimosa Bloom finalist at NexoFoto'15
2014
Selected at Pa-ta-ta Festival Internacional de Fotografía Emergente de Granada
Selected at Descubrimientos PhotoEspaña
2013
Where Mimosa Bloom selected at Rock your Dummy - Paris Photobook Fest 2013
Solo Exhibitions
2017
Good Luck with the Future at Galerie Jacques Cerami
2015
Where Mimosa Bloom at Galerie Jacques Cerami
Books
2017
Good Luck with the Future, Dani Pujalte + Rita Puig-Serra, selfpublished, ISBN 978-84-617-9587-1

2014
Where Mimosa Bloom, published by Éditions du LIC, ISBN 978-82-93341-04-8


Selected Group Exhibitions
2017
Where Mimosa Bloom at Dommages et Refuges Hôtel Fontfreyde Clermont-Ferrand · 12-10-17 – 31-12-17
Good Luck with the Future at New Documentary Image at Caixa Forum Madrid 19th September-31st December
Good Luck with the Future at New Documentary Image at Caixa Forum Barcelona 19th September-31st December
Good Luck with the Future at IAM: Building Utopias curated by PERDIZ Magazine
Where Mimosa Bloom at Baffest, Barakaldo
2016
 Where Mimosa Bloom at Photoalicante. International Photography Festival.  
2015
 Where Mimosa Bloom at Festival Circulation(s), Centquatre, Paris
2014
 Where Mimosa Bloom at Spanish Photography Showcase - Leafhopper at Obscura Festival / George Town, Penang  
 Where Mimosa Bloom at Spanish Photography Showcase - Leafhopper / Kuala Lumpur
 Where Mimosa Bloom at  FineArt Igualada
Selected Publications
2017
Good Luck with the Future at Wallpaper*
Good Luck with the Future at Revista Old
2016
Good Luck with the Future at Yet Magazine
2015
 Where Mimosa Bloom at Unstate Magazine 
 Kawah Ijen at Too Much Magazine Issue 6
 Coneja VS Dulce at Lost Magazine Issue 2
Where Mimosa Bloom at Ballad of... Magazine
Where Mimosa Bloom at  Photo-Eye - Janelle Lynch
Where Mimosa Bloom at 30y3
Where Mimosa Bloom at Phases Magazine
Where Mimosa Bloom at  Photobook Store Magazine
Where Mimosa Bloom at Who needs another photoblog
Where Mimosa Bloom at paper Journal
Where Mimosa Bloom at Yet Magazine
Where Mimosa Bloom at Las tres preguntas de Gustavo Alemán
Where Mimosa Bloom at Have A Nice Book
Where Mimosa Bloom at Ruby Star
Where Mimosa Bloom at El Mundo
Where Mimosa Bloom at Daily Metal
Where Mimosa Bloom at7.7 Revista digital de fotografía documental 14* #Memoriaherida

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