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La Luz También Viajaby Genesis Báez
32 pages
17 plates
5.5” ✕ 8”
300 copies
2022
Edited by Martha Naranjo Sandoval
Designed by Aline Enríquez
Regular edition out of print
Limited Print Edition available
A limited number of copies has been set aside for institutions and libraries to acquire. Please contact martha@matarileediciones.com for more information.
“I photograph to trace the invisible threads that connect people and places otherwise separated by time and distance. The light carving a portal in Massachusetts is the same light bouncing off a mirror shard in Puerto Rico.
The images emerged from reflecting on the ways people relate to place, history, imagination, and community in the dispersion of diasporic life. I imagine and photograph scenes that give shape to the fragmented and temporal experiences of existing in between. Through this work, I consider how belonging may be conjured from fragments.” —GB
Working predominantly in photography, her work considers how people shape and relate to place, history, imagination, and community. Her recent works explore the latter in the context of diasporic life.
Báez holds an MFA from Yale University, a BFA with honors from MassArt, and is an alumna of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has exhibited her work internationally, including ARCO Madrid with Ponce & Robles, Huxley Parlour in London, Yancey Richardson in New York, and CHART in New York. Her work has appeared in publications such as Aperture and BOMB. Báez currently teaches at the Pratt Institute and The New School.