La Casa #[nn]

Paco Roca's La Casa captures something quietly profound right from its cover — a sun-warmed exterior staircase, overgrown with vines and scattered with fallen leaves, where a bundle of old clothes and worn sandals rest abandoned on the steps, evoking the weight of memory and absence. The muted oranges and yellows of Roca's linework give the scene a melancholy warmth, the kind that settles over a family home left too long to its own devices. Published in 2015 by Astiberri Ediciones, this is Roca working in an intimate, unhurried register that suits the subject beautifully.