> 2020 Projection Showcases
Symptom: Latin America Contemporary Photography
Curated by
Tania Bohórquez (México) & Musuk Nolte (Perú)
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Juanita Escobar (Colombia)
“Llano”
Yael Martínez (México)
“La casa que sangra (The House that Bleeds)”
Mariceu Erthal (México)
“Cartas para Gemma (Letters to Gemma”)
Jorge Panchoaga (Colombia)
“Dulce y salada“
Max Cabello (Perú)
“Chungui, o el viaje al sureste del olvido“
Eric Allende (Chile)
“Insurrection“
José Luis Cuevas (México)
“La Resistencia de los cuerpos (On the bodies’ resistance)“
Debora Elenter (Uruguay)
“Puerpera“
Rueda Photos (Argentina)
“Feminicidas (Azcona)”
Juan Brenner (Guatemala)
“Tonatiuh“
Nelson Morales (México)
“Musas Muxe“
Pablo Piovano (Argentina)
“Mapuche“
CURATORS’ NOTE
The artistic creation in Latin America is articulated as a geopolitically fragmented body, emancipated and with the sharpened symptom of resistance; an eroded and contracted body. Contemporary photographic production has questioned history, reformulating its own identity by finding a visual language in dialogue with the juncture and the urgent conditions of the region’s situation.
To this purpose, we decided to include projects that deal with their work as an eloquent practice to build divergent and committed narratives in the long term relationships, which are born in the desire, the public space, the autonomy, the encounter, the clash and the differentiation, the classes, the genres, the ethnicities, the cultural defects, the body, the symptom and the elusive drive in the way of seeing and existing.
At a time when collectivity and associativity is being the way to build from the plural the singular, we are interested in proposing a route that from chaos and multiplicity reveals the different surfaces that build the region. Where the constant questioning of the established determines the way in which the image manages to displace the dynamics of power.
Latin American photography is not an ideal, it is an effervescent space of resistance.
Tania Bohórquez
Musuk Nolte
ENTER THE Showcase
Words: shouted, blabbered, shattered in between the walls
This showcase presents the work of 12 photographers from seven countries in Latin America. Selected not only for the quality of their work, but also for the nature of their questioning and position of confrontation, curators Tania Bohórquez and Musuk Nolte presents a view of contemporary photography from their continent.
Curated for and presented at the 16th Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops.
Interview with Tania Bohórquez and Musuk Nolte
Read the interview by Tan Lee Kuen with Sadia Marium about what inspired the creation of this showcase and the act of curating from an open call during a pandemic.
“But above all we wanted to show a body with ‘Symptoms’ that shows the urgency of restructuring itself. We are interested in talking about that fragility as a strength and agent of change.”
CURATOR BIOGRAPHIES
Born in Oaxaca, Mexico in 1987, Tania Bohórquez is a visual artist, active in photography, video and performance. She works along two lines: self-referential and documentary, with a focus on the human fragility in interpersonal relationships and collective structures (family and vulnerable groups) and her projects’ topics include violence, sexual abuse and incest.
With a background in political science, she studied at the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Photographic Center and Centro de la Imagen in México, completing a Master’s degree in Critic of Contemporary Art and Production of Visual Arts.
She is a tutor for the Clinics for Specialization in Contemporary Art in Oaxaca and was a tutor in the Program to Encourage Artistic Creation and Development (an award for artists granted by The Council of Arts of México). Part of her creative process involves the practice of community pedagogy avoiding the vertical structure of power.
Born in Mexico 1988, Musuk Nolte is a photographer and editor living in Perú. He holds a degree in Professional photography and a specialisation in contemporary photography at Centro de la Imagen in Perú. His work has a documentary and artistic approach to cultural and social issues in dialogue with other sources of understanding the human condition.
Nolte has been selected for the World Press Photo Master Class in Latam (2015) for the Magnum Foundation’s Emergency Fund grant (2017). He has also received the Elliott Erwitt Havana Club 7 Fellowship and is a National Geographic Explorer (2019-2020) and Pulitzer Center Grantee (2020).
He has presented 15 solo exhibitions and been part of several group exhibitions in biennials and museums, and has published 6 books.
Since 2013, he is the director and editor of KWY Ediciones, an independent photography publisher house for Latin-American authors based in Lima Peru. He has also been a jury of the main photography and photobooks prizes in Latin America and has lead workshops and portfolio reviews.
Currently part of VIST Projects (Visual Story Telling Projects), Musuk is a member of the academic board in the specialisation in documentary photography at Centro de la imagen in Lima, Peru.
www.musuknolte.com www.kwyediciones.com
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