Published by Overlapse, Bego Antón’s All of Them Witches investigates the historical witch hunts across the Basque Country in northern Spain. Working from documented archival confessions extracted from accused women during periods of intense persecution, Antón approaches historical trauma through staged reenactments and conceptual imagery. Rather than treating inquisitorial records as objective chronicles, the project probes how myth, institutional coercion, and superstition fabricated the figures of witchcraft.
Antón transforms these distorted testimonies into photographic scenes that blend visual wit with critical inquiry. Her compositions question inherited records by reimagining the confessions through contemporary visual storytelling. Incorporating texts by the artist alongside photographic sequences, the volume constructs a narrative space where historical fabrications are destabilized and the marginalized identities of the accused women are symbolically reclaimed.
For collectors of conceptual and research-based photobooks, All of Them Witches offers a rigorous synthesis of archival investigation and contemporary staging. Published by Overlapse, known for conceptually structured visual narratives, Antón’s book stands out for its imaginative methodology, turning the machinery of historical prosecution into an inquiry into collective memory and mythmaking.