Celebrating Fotoweek DC, 2011- November 10, 2011 – February 4, 2012
At the Mexican Cultural Institute
FREE ADMISSION
Gallery Hours: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm Monday to Friday | 12:00 - 4:00 pm Saturday
“Conversación”
“This exhibition represents a year-long collaboration between the two artists, one from Mexico and one an annual visitor to Mexico which with a single photograph sent by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio as a digital file to Muriel Hasbun, who replied by sending back one of her own. This exchange went on for months. Each responded to the next image in his or her own way, not knowing where the accumulating sequence was leading or what its narrative content ultimately might be. Other than agreeing on the ground rules, they did not discuss what they were doing while the exchange was taking place.
The show thus uses photography to probe the possibilities of cultural and visual exchange in a digital age. Taking place over the Internet, with one artist in Mexico City and one in Washington, D.C., the conversation is a wordless interplay of information and meaning.
Indeed, Conversación is ultimately about how art is made and how meaning is constructed. Every move the artists make is smart in an intellectual sense but also deeply intuitive, a gesture of not knowing more than it is of knowing. To trust each other in this process, to collaborate in the territory of risk and uncertainty where one can feel vulnerable and even foolish, is as much an accomplishment for these artists as is the beauty of the individual images and the mystery of their sequencing.”
- Excerpt from an essay on the exhibition by writer, curator and teacher Andy Grundberg
“MAREMAGNUM”: JORDI SOCÍAS PHOTOGRAPHY
A visual journey through the last four decades in Spain and Europe guided by an icon of photojournalism. Jordi Socías (Barcelona, 1945) is one of the key names of the evolution of Spanish photojournalism in the last decades. Its personal style is also an essential element of the layout of the history of Spanish photography, a style that moves away from the objectivity deemed inherent in photography and which becomes aware of its own subjective representation nature. The most important figures and events of the country’s modern history have posed for him, building, through images, a fascinating tale of life since the ‘70’s, when he started his career, until now.
Read more about this Exhibit here.
