Bartomeu Rebés Foundation Launches with Silver Dreams Photo Exhibition

The Bartomeu Rebés Foundation has launched with an inaugural exhibition titled *Somnis de plata* (Silver Dreams), featuring 66 photographs by its namesake, mostly portraits from 40 to 60 years ago. Located on Carrer de la Creu Grossa in Andorra la Vella, the foundation aims to unify, preserve, and promote three complementary archives: those of Bartomeu Rebés, Casa Guillemó, and Editorial Andorra.

The collection includes over 50,000 photographic negatives, around 200 films and videos, and thousands of documents, forming one of the most comprehensive private records of 20th-century Andorra. The Rebés archive captures daily life—festivals, family portraits, and domestic events—alongside records of the country's urban development.

Bartomeu Rebés (1910-1997), the last major heir of Casa Guillemó, documented Andorra's rapid changes throughout his life. He became a key visual and documentary chronicler, while also driving urban projects as a protagonist in the nation's transformation. The foundation describes him as a modern humanist who navigated tensions between tradition and modernity, private intimacy and public life.

Founded by Rebés himself in 1967, Editorial Andorra later acquired the Casa Guillemó archive and the family patriarch's cultural legacy. Combined with the publisher's own historical materials, the holdings span photography, film, video, music, engineering documents, urban planning records, and editorial artifacts across the 20th century.

The *Somnis de plata* photos focus on "those still with us," individuals or their descendants who were once captured by Rebés's lens. The opening days drew these subjects on the first day, followed by Editorial Andorra's extended network of writers, translators, editors, illustrators, printers, and booksellers. Future exhibitions will open the archives to the general public.

Xavier Rebés, a foundation patron, said the initiative seeks to "activate" this heritage, turning the archive into a tool to question the past and build a more plural, open future.