BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ahva.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211016T1603Z-1634400223.5039-EO-27812-37@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240329T035413Z CREATED:20201127T182917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210824T195943Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20201211T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210207T170000 SUMMARY: MIRADAS ALTERNAS Through Her Lens DESCRIPTION: December 11 2020 – February 7\, 2021 The Polygon Curated by An drea Sanchez Ibarrola The exhibition Miradas Alternas explores alternative approaches to the photographic representation of violence in contemporary M exico. It features photographs\, video and printed material by women lens-b ased artists from Mexico: Juliana Alvarado\, Alejandra Aragón\, Koral Carba llo\, Mariceu Erthal and Sonia Madrigal. Combining artistic\, documentary [ …] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The exhibition Miradas Alternas explores alternative approaches to the photographic representation of violence in c ontemporary Mexico. It features photographs\, video and printed material by women lens-based artists from Mexico: Juliana Alvarado\, Alejandra Aragón\ , Koral Carballo\, Mariceu Erthal and Sonia Madrigal. Combining artistic\, documentary and journalistic approaches\, their work responds to the ongoin g femicide crisis that has exponentially increased in recent years\, along with enforced disappearances and multiple forms of criminal violence\, amid st an ongoing armed conflict of unimaginable horror and yet so full of imag es. Rejecting the forensic gaze common to news photography and mass media\, they draw on language\, use poetic devices and employ performative strateg ies to produce photographic images differently. Focusing on the affects of loss\, grief\, rage\, and fear\, their work evokes the absence of missing a nd murdered women and tell stories that claim spaces for presence\, visibil ity and justice.
Juliana A lvarado (b. Cuautla\, 1990) is a visual artist interested in exami ning social\, economic and political systems in relation to space\, archite cture and built environments. In 2016 she won an artistic residency at Ofic ina de Arte (Mexico City) and recently her work was selected for Mexico’s P hotography Biennial (2018) and FotoMéxico Festival (2019).
Alejandra Aragón (b. Ciudad Juáre z\, 1983) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the identities of border regions and how territories determine one’s experience. in 2019 s he was awarded the Mexican Fine Arts Grant (FONCA) and a film production gr ant from the Tribeca Film Institute If/Then Program. This year she is one o f the participants of the 2020 Joop Swart Masterclass.
Koral Carballo (b. Poza Rica\, 1987) dissolves frontiers between photojournalism and visual arts to address issu es of identity\, land and violence. Her work has been published internation ally and awarded by Bronx Documentary Center\, Women Photograph + Getty Ima ges\, Magnum Foundation Fund\, Open Society Foundations\, among others. She is co-founder of Mirar Distinto\, a documentary photo-festival based in Ve racruz\, Mexico.
Mariceu E rthal (b. Querétaro\, 1989) uses documentary photography as a brid ge to reflect and question humanitarian issues that traverses Latin America n territories. She is a 2020 W. Eugene Smith Fund Grant Recipient and her w ork has been published in The Guardian\, Ph Museum\, Witness by World Press Photo\, among others.
Using multi ple visual narratives Sonia Madrigal (b. Ciudad Nezahualcó yotl\, 1978) explores the intersections of gendered bodies\, violence and t erritory\, particularly within the Eastern periphery of Mexico’s Greater Me tropolitan Area. Her work has been published internationally and this year she has been awarded the Mexican Fine Arts Extended Grant (SNCA-FONCA).
Andrea Sánchez Ibarrola (b. Cuernavaca\, 1988) is an MA candidate in Critical and Curatorial St udies at the University of British Columbia.
This exhibition is supported by the Killy Foundation and the Aud ain Endowment for Curatorial Studies through the Department of Art History\ , Visual Art and Theory and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia.
Public critique with Pablo de Ocampo to be held at 3pm February 4\, 2021 on Zoom
Image Credit: Sonia Madrigal\, From the series Death rises in the East\ , ongoing since 2014\, Inkjet print\, courtesy of the artist.
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