Bubblegum Club, "Langa Mavuso," 2017 © Bubblegum Club
This work is on view during the current Summer Open at the Aperture Foundation "The Way We Live Now."
South-Africa based “cultural intelligence agency” Bubblegum Club creates an “alternative image repertoire to the repetition of colonial views of Africa.” Their online platform includes artists from many disciplines: photography, fashion, television, music, etc.
Read my thoughts on this fascinating exhibition on my blog.
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Em Rooney (1983) creates innovative frames for her work. In this case, she created a lime green transparant crystal looking box and the picture is faced inwards. On the back one can read: "I have this image of Sarah that I'm note sure if it's from a dream or it's from a picture I saw of her somewhere..." It makes you want to creep up from behind to see it, but you can't. Honestly, I did not try it because I think the MoMA would have rules against that. "Verso of Sarah with a Painting of Her Own Eyes," 2016 is part of MoMA's "Being: New Photography 2018"
Courtesy the artist and Bodega, New York
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Diego Camposeco aims to create “reimagined documentary images,” to his Latinex community in his home state of North Carolina. His “Transterrestria” series is about the Latinx people in the American South, which has grown exponentially since his the first wave of undocumented Mexican immigration (of which his parents were part of) migrated to North Carolina in the 90’s. He started his own study of Latinex visual culture in the American South and took a cerebral take on them. In these portraits, we see a young woman named Sabrina who poses against a lush green background while in her thrid trimester of her pregancy. He stated about it: “Often, Latinx people are denigrated to metonyms for farm workers, maids, or construction labourers in the American South. Their hopes, dreams, and visual culture are left out of those narratives. […]. Providing more Latinx people with the means to document their stories reconfigures the way we view them.”
This work, Diego Camposeco, “Sabrina,” 2017, © Diego Camposeco is on view at the @aperturefnd’s Open Summer “The Way We Live Now” until August 16, 2018. .
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