Can Monroig hosts the recent work of Mallorcan photographer Gabriel Ramon, a series of portraits in black and white wet collodion which give the work an anachronistic and enigmatic character.
This technique, devised in 1851 by Gustave Le Gray, consists of using collodion, a kind of varnish which is poured liquid onto the glass plates. The plate must remain wet throughout the whole process, which meant that photographers had to bring the laboratory with them to prepare the plate before shooting.
A drawback that caused the abandonment of the technic in the 1880s and which is today recovered by contemporary photography as shown The photographic scar.
