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In FONS ÀUDIO #49, Peter Downsbrough takes his works from the MACBA Collection as a springboard to talk about a relationship with photography spanning almost half a century, and about how it fits into the jigsaw puzzle of techniques and disciplines that make up his artistic vocabulary. We talk about space, cities, invisible lines, and the critical attitude that runs subtly through his practice.

In FONS ÀUDIO #48, Akram Zaatari contextualises his work 'Nature morte', which is part of the MACBA Collection. This film was produced for the 2008 exhibition 'Les Inquiets – 5 artistes sous la pression de la guerre' at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, which explored the war in the Middle East and its representations.

In FONS ÀUDIO #47, Andrea Fraser comments the work 'Little Frank and His Carp', in the MACBA Collection, which registered her performance in the atrium of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 2001. Recorded by five hidden cameras, 'Little Frank and His Carp' follows the artist’s movements from different angles and shows the changes in attitude and emotion generated by the male voice of the audio guide.

Malcolm Le Grice talks about his 1970 work "Berlin Horse", which is part of the MACBA Collection and moves on to expanded cinema, materialist structuralism, latency, suspense, and the representation of time in his work.

Martí Anson is an artist of multiple registers who extends and redefines, through his works, the limits of the exhibition space, the possibilities of artistic reception and the status of the artist. In FONS AUDIO #40 Martí Anson tells us about his childhood summers in La Garrotxa, his formative years, the art public, the limits of the museum and the transfers between reality and fiction.

Iván Argote is a multifaceted artist who uses media such as video, photography, sculpture, performance, and installation to question the notion of heritage, and tests the events that govern our social, political, and private contexts. In FONS AUDIO #39 Iván talks about the family as a small social unit, about pranks or ‘pilatunas’ and caresses, about a change of scale as a critical tool, and about the archaeological remains that we carry around within us.

Through a series of practices designed to examine all the folds and psychological strata of the real, Matt Mullican circles around notions such as virtuality, cosmology, subjectivity, and the idea of a memory theatre. In FONS AUDIO #36 he tells us about life on the other side of the mirror, explains different ways of handling a corpse, and talks about the mind’s endless capacity to create imaginary or parallel worlds.

Patricia Dauder creates essential structures as a result of long-term work processes that allow her to set up a fluctuating dialogue between observation of the physical world, experimentation with matter, and the analysis of systems of representation. In FONS AUDIO #35 Patricia Dauder uses the work Model #1 as a springboard into her creative process and into aspects such as travelling, ruins, colours, textures, and other interests that shape her cosmologies.

Daniela Ortiz and Xose Quiroga carry out artistic research and actions at points where colonial narratives collide with migration control systems and with the consensus that underpins the nation state. In Fons #34, Daniela talks about the duo’s working processes, about different ways of spreading hidden knowledge, and about the nomenclature of the colonial monuments that populate the city.

Joan Fontcuberta talks about his formative years, about the processes by which photography is incorporated into the art world, about post-photography, and about his works in the MACBA Collection.

Jordi Colomer ponders the uses of writing, architecture and representation, and takes us through his works in the MACBA Collection.

Francesc Abad takes us on a tour spanning the last four decades of Spanish and Catalan art, through an analysis of his works in the MACBA Collection.

Antoni Abad charts a course that begins with his early sculptural works and ends with his current community-based mobile communication projects, by way of his video installations and net.art.

Oriol Vilanova works with materials from flea markets: postcards, books and other documents which he collects, sorts and recomposes to create new mental journeys.

The photographs of Xavier Ribas analyse processes of transformation of contemporary metropolises, and the ways of life and habitability that these changes bring about.