Curator: Emily Adams
Nº of works: 51 b/w and colour photographs
Availability: from october 2014
Contact: Ana Berruguete
The exhibition was shown at Casa de América, PHotoEspaña 2014; and will be presented at SESC, Sao Paulo, Brasil and CAF , Almería, Spain
Artist: Claudia Aréchiga, Marlos Bakker, Alejandro Cegarra, Carolina Krieger, Gustavo Lacerda, Karina Muench, Elena Pastor, Rómulo Peña, Stefan Schmeling, Mariza Versiani.
PHotoEspaña regularly organizes portfolio viewings in different Latin-American cities. This exhibition presents a selection of work entered for the viewings held at the Sesc Consola¬çao in São Paulo and at the Centro Cultural Chacao, supported by the Cultural Office of the Spanish Embassy in Venezuela-AECID and the CIEF in Caracas. With a view to showcase a broad range of art initiatives, it focuses on works that suggest stories, draw attention to unknown figures or explore facts that often go unnoticed. When it closes at the Casa de América, the exhibition will move on to the Sesc in São Paulo, the organisation behind its production.
At a street level, Marlos Bakker looks at the car as a place of apparent privacy where the driver is nonetheless exposed, while Stefan Schmeling tours the watchtowers of São Paulo. In an exploration of life in other social spheres, Alejandro Cegarra reports on an occupied building in Caracas, and Mariza Versiani offers a poetic insight into the lives of ordinary workers. Karina Muench provides a critical investigation of femicide in Bolivia, while Romulo Peña reflects on the high suicide rate in a remote Venezuelan village. Gustavo Rodrigues Lacerda takes exquisite portraits of albinos in Brazil, and Elena Pastor constructs a portrait of her father through his personal possessions. Claudia Arechiga focuses on certain moments in the assigning of stories on the paper for which she works, and Carolina Fóes captures in images a world in silence.
