From the sculptural to the archive
XVI PHOTOGRAPHY BIENNALE – CENTRO DE LA IMAGEN
CURATED BY MAGNOLIA DE LA GARZA
2014 – 2015
Fototeca Nuevo León – Centro de las Artes Parque Fundidora
Monterrey, Nuevo León
November 21st, 2014 – February 22nd, 2015
Centro de la Imagen
México City, México
May 25th – August 16th, 2015
This survey of the 16th Photography Biennale centers on two points of discourse, the sculptural and the archival. The exhibition is articulated around two prize-winning entries, María María Acha-Kutscher’s Womankind and Fabiola Menchelli’s Constructions, as well as around three projects that received the jury’s honorable mention. Menchelli’s and Acha-Kutscher’s works are at opposite ends of the show’s main axis, which takes us on a journey from the relationship between photography and sculpture to the photographic use of archives.
The exhibition features several of the photography and video projects selected by the jury of the Biennale; it also includes certain works that were eliminated in the final selection, as well as one guest project. All of these works guide us and lead us to pose questions on the road from the sculptural to the archival in photography.
But the archive is also the construct that leads us to reconsider the photographic image, its uses and circulation. Everything from the recovery of public archives, or of private ones such as family albums, to their appropriation and manipulation implies that we reexamine our memories, while all this also establishes a new association with the past and leads to the creation of small monuments.
– Magnolia de la Garza
From the sculptural to the archive
XVI PHOTOGRAPHY BIENNALE – CENTRO DE LA IMAGEN
CURATED BY MAGNOLIA DE LA GARZA
2014 – 2015
Fototeca Nuevo León – Centro de las Artes Parque Fundidora
Monterrey, Nuevo León
November 21st, 2014 – February 22nd, 2015
Centro de la Imagen
México City, México
May 25th – August 16th, 2015
This survey of the 16th Photography Biennale centers on two points of discourse, the sculptural and the archival. The exhibition is articulated around two prize-winning entries, María María Acha-Kutscher’s Womankind and Fabiola Menchelli’s Constructions, as well as around three projects that received the jury’s honorable mention. Menchelli’s and Acha-Kutscher’s works are at opposite ends of the show’s main axis, which takes us on a journey from the relationship between photography and sculpture to the photographic use of archives.
The exhibition features several of the photography and video projects selected by the jury of the Biennale; it also includes certain works that were eliminated in the final selection, as well as one guest project. All of these works guide us and lead us to pose questions on the road from the sculptural to the archival in photography.
But the archive is also the construct that leads us to reconsider the photographic image, its uses and circulation. Everything from the recovery of public archives, or of private ones such as family albums, to their appropriation and manipulation implies that we reexamine our memories, while all this also establishes a new association with the past and leads to the creation of small monuments.
– Magnolia de la Garza