An excellent panorama of current American photography can be seen until August in the Artexarte Gallery (Lavalleja 1062) With free admission.
It’s about The exhibition “Unique Worlds”which brings together the work of 8 photographers with a common feature: a look concentrated in narrating its nearby world, from diverse places in the United States. In His works, characters, spaces, homes and landscapes reflect in black and white A personal universe, to the scope of the hand, which also indicates a state of things in the suburbs and the interior of an ignored country.
The exhibition has two curators, the Argentine photographer and editor Pablo Cabado and Bryan Schumaatwho will edit the books of the artists who integrate the exhibition in their TresPasser Books seal.
Here is a description of the biography and the work of the authors according to the editors and in their own words:
AGNIESZKA SOSNOWSKA
“I grew up in Boston and traveled to Iceland 25 years ago for whim. I fell in love and stayed. With my Icelandic husband, I chose to live in nature, not visit it. This decision has not been exempt from evidence. Together we have forged a life that I feel is just beginning.
Every day I look for corners of tranquility. When I find them, I stop and listen for a long time.
These places exist around our farm, with friends and the students I teach.
These places are my day to day. They are everything to me, ”Sosnowska explained about his work.
Colby Deal
“Place my art in the appropriate spaces within a community can increase self -esteem, positive influence and even generate income for small businesses in my community. In the era of image and information, it is crucial to perpetuate practical narratives of culture and seek the most precise representation. I effort me to create a community repertoire and a visual link through my work based on the lens, while I carry out interactive studies to observe the psychology of society from society The location, ”explains Deal.
Lisa Elmaleh
“Promised Land” is a photographic project initiated in 2020 that explores migration at the border between the United States and Mexico, facing the dominant media and visual speeches on the subject. The author toured different border areas and collaborated with humanitarian organizations, directly approaching asylum applicants and those who provide basic help. Inspired by its own family history of migration and uprooting, the project uses an 8×10 inches large format chamber to create portraits that promote empathy and reflect the complexity of these experiences, proposing an ethical and humanizing vision in opposition to sensationalist representations.
Jenia Fridlyand
He works at the intersection of memory, identity and space, exploring the boundaries between the personal and the collective. Its use of black and white reinforces the melancholic and timeless atmosphere of its images, which evoke the fragility of everyday moments. Influenced by the narrative of Antón Chekhov, whose work explores the subtleties of the ordinary, Frydland captures landscapes and scenes that suggest more than they show, inviting the viewer to reflect on what is not said, the lost and the ephemeral in the passage of time. His work, like Chekhov’s, seeks the invisible in the visible.
Matthew Genitempo
It is characterized by its contemplative and profound approach to landscapes and everyday situations. His work uses the white and a certain melancholic atmosphere, inviting the viewer to a reflection on the relationship between the human being and the environment. Through his gaze, Genitempo seeks to reveal the poetry that underlies the daily routine and the small undersalized stories of the places he photographs. His work is nourished by a particular sensitivity, which finds beauty in stillness and ephemeral, transforming the ordinary into a space for introspection.
Sasha Phyars-Burges
“My position is always political. But, to be more specific, I am a black person, a member of the African diaspora who spends time and is in the presence of other members of the African diaspora (black people). I do not make reports in the sense of adopting a journalistic approach to photograph other people. political positioning of black people in the world
Black people and return them to the world, and the world is racist, so my work is always political. Because the breed, among other things, is political, ”explains Phyars-Burges.
Richard Rothman
Richard Rothman continues a long tradition in American photography: the search for national character through the landscape. His work is part of a genealogy that includes Carleton Watkins, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and the photographers of the New Topographics, all of them attentive to the tensions between the promise of freedom associated with the west and the consequences of development and exploitation of the territory. From mining scars in the nineteenth century to the urban expansion of the twentieth century, these photographers have documented how the national imaginary coexists with the footprints of environmental and social deterioration.
Erinn Springer
Erinn Springer returned to the rural area of Wisconsin after the loss of a close relative, hoping to reconnect with the memories of his home. Created with his family and strangers, the resulting series portrays the contrasts of the modern west, where everyday life is trapped between the past and the present. Its insulation and connection representations explore interior and exterior landscapes in a mysterious but familiar region. A portrait of agrarian life, inactive season is a tender document of the intergenerational ties of rural America: a mental space and a physical place in the heart of an old dream and on the edge of a transformation.
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