Casa de Campo is a photographic fable rooted firmly in the realities of Madrid’s largest public park. Casa de Campo sprawls, five times the size of Central Park, to the west of Madrid. Between 2008 and 2012 Antonio M. Xoubanova wandered the paths of this urban woodland examining the people, animals and objects he saw as if he was on uncommon ground. Inadvertently he found himself transforming a given reality into narrative fiction. Designed as an ancient fairy tale, the book is made up of five chapters referring respectively to love, death, fleeting moments, symbols and a lack of direction. It examines both the symbolic and the oneiric through the gathering together of people, animals, animate and inanimate beings within this single space. In his text Luis Lopez posits that for any researcher, archaeologist, intruder or anthropologist their findings will always be the same: someone was here, somebody did this. Stuff happens here. These traces are what drew Xoubanova back into Casa de Campo over the years.

スペイン・マドリードを拠点とし、数々の賞を受賞してきたフォトグラファー、Antonio M. Xoubanovaの初写真集。地表面積約1,700ヘクタール、NYのセントラルパークの5倍もの広さを誇 るマドリード最大の森林地帯「Casa de Campo」。その地で目にする人々や動物、その風景をまるで初めてその地に降り立った人の目線になって捉えるという、作者自身がフィクションとノンフィクションの狭間に自らの身を置く行為から生まれたイメージで構成。
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