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El Ojo de.... / Diana López
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FA.B125.2521
2021
Four volumes in removable dust jacket. Offset printing. Novo Paper. Edition 40 of 200.
" About twenty-five years ago, at the start of my artistic practice, I collaborated with four children as I sought to understand the gaze of others.
I handed each child a compact analog camera, several Ilford XP2 film rolls, a notebook, and invited them to take pictures. I suggested they look at their surroundings, taking notice of the beautiful and the ugly, the large and the small. They took photographs for about three months, sometimes with me and other times at home or when they were out for a walk with their parents. I started this series with Franklyn Osorio in Caracas, and continued it with Wen-You Cai, Lucy Poe Charlesworth, and Gala Delmont Benatar in New York City, during my participation in the International Studio Program at PS1 MoMA.
I invited the children to tell stories through their photos, an unprecedented process for them and their parents. The off-kilter frames they captured dazzled us with the subtleties of their curious glances. The process included making a photo album, which they kept as a memory of this experience. The result is an interplay of images and words with their photos and titles: a visual diary. The final selection was exhibited at Sala Mendoza in Caracas.
I kept the negatives for years, with the idea of making a photobook from the perspective of four kids whop grew up at the end of the millennium between the analog and digital worlds. The Eye of... emerges in 2021 with a certain halo of nostalgia for a less connected world, where our private lives still belonged to us." -- Diana Lopez, dust jacket
" About twenty-five years ago, at the start of my artistic practice, I collaborated with four children as I sought to understand the gaze of others.
I handed each child a compact analog camera, several Ilford XP2 film rolls, a notebook, and invited them to take pictures. I suggested they look at their surroundings, taking notice of the beautiful and the ugly, the large and the small. They took photographs for about three months, sometimes with me and other times at home or when they were out for a walk with their parents. I started this series with Franklyn Osorio in Caracas, and continued it with Wen-You Cai, Lucy Poe Charlesworth, and Gala Delmont Benatar in New York City, during my participation in the International Studio Program at PS1 MoMA.
I invited the children to tell stories through their photos, an unprecedented process for them and their parents. The off-kilter frames they captured dazzled us with the subtleties of their curious glances. The process included making a photo album, which they kept as a memory of this experience. The result is an interplay of images and words with their photos and titles: a visual diary. The final selection was exhibited at Sala Mendoza in Caracas.
I kept the negatives for years, with the idea of making a photobook from the perspective of four kids whop grew up at the end of the millennium between the analog and digital worlds. The Eye of... emerges in 2021 with a certain halo of nostalgia for a less connected world, where our private lives still belonged to us." -- Diana Lopez, dust jacket