The Fold is a visual and psychological investigation of the French psychiatrist and photographer Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault (1872–1934). The project originated during research at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, where Hoda Afshar encountered an archive of thousands of images taken by de Clérambault in Morocco of veiled Islamic women—and sometimes men—through which he sought to explore his psychoanalytic ideas about covering and fantasy.
Marking the first time Afshar has drawn upon an archive in her work, The Fold explores the enduring legacy of Orientalist and colonial photographic practices. It is an investigation into the regimes of perception and control that determine what we see and how we see.
January 27 - April 26, 2026
Rda. de Valencia, 2, Centro
28012 Madrid
