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La Luz También Viaja by Genesis BáezLimited Print Edition
Edition of 5 copies
Signed and numbered
Contains:
Book
Hand stamped envelope
Numbered print slipcase
$250
Parting (Braid), 2021.
Archival pigment print
310 gsm
7” ✕ 5”
Book
Saddle stitch, self-cover
With limited edition obi band
32 pages
17 plates
5.5” ✕ 8”
Designed by Aline Enríquez
Genesis Báez was born in Massachusetts to Puerto Rican parents who had migrated there in the 1980s. La Luz También Viaja (Light Also Travels) brings together a selection of photographs from an ongoing body of work made in Puerto Rico and the Northeast US. In these, she images landscapes, constructs still lives, and enacts gestures with women from her family or with women who remind her of them.
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.
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Sedimental Feelings by Marion EllenaLimited Print Edition
Edition of 5 copies
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$250
One of a kind Cyanotype photogram, each is slightly different.
5” ✕ 7”
Book
Saddle stitch, self-cover
With limited edition obi band
5.5” ✕ 8”
Signed
Designed by Aline Enríquez
For Sedimental Feelings, Marion Ellena brings together images made between 2006 and 2021. The publication combines images she took during her teenage years, recent photographs, and pictures that have been manipulated in the darkroom with filters, light, and photogramming.
An intimate relationship with the darkroom. Thin layers of time and space.
Sometimes photography becomes accidental and a field of possibilities opens a window.
Navigating. The body guides. Holding hands to an unstable representation.
Hands on light and paper. Processing. Alteration. Sensation.
Process of apparition. Declining boundaries between the present and the past, reality and fiction.
Feeling the materiality of the memories. The outside from the inside world.”
—ME
Her work explores the fragility of memory and our perceptions of time and space.
She received a BFA degree from La Cambre in Brussels, and an MFA from Les Arts Décoratifs de Paris. In 2021, she was part of an art residency in Marseille to finish her project film Aphone. Her work has been shown at the Jeu de Paume Lab. She is currently enrolled in the Electroacoustic Studies Program at the Marseille Conservatory.
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Quiéreme Mucho by Cristina VelásquezLimited Print Edition
Edition of 5 copies
Signed and numbered
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$250
Green Studio, 2021.
Archival pigment print
Baryta paper
310 gsm
7” ✕ 5”
Book
Saddle stitch, self-cover
With limited edition obi band
32 pages
21 plates
5.5” ✕ 8”
Signed
Designed by Aline Enríquez
Quiéreme Mucho (Love me a lot) is a selection of recent and old work by Cristina. Her image-making process consists in two moments. The first one, in which she let’s herself guide by intuition to shoot the images; and the second, in which she edits and dissects the work, looking at it through a critical lens while she questions her decisions, crops the images, and examines her impulses.
I am interested in acknowledging the subjectivities that permeate the act of representing —oneself, and the other— starting with the power imbalance inherent to the medium, that mirrors a larger system of social editing. Through photography, I have a chance to reclaim my own identity, and by doing so, complicate the visual alphabet and resist the threats of cultural assimilation, which feel very violent to me. I understand picture making as one of the most effective ways to shift narratives about who counts in the world. “—CV
Her work examines postcolonial structures of power in Latin America, such as race, gender, class, and labor distribution. She is interested in the way one culture translates another, and how inevitably, a dominant culture sanitizes and reduces the other in a subtle, and not so subtle, continuity of colonialism.
Cristina received an MFA degree in Advanced Photographic Studies from Bard College and the International Center of Photography (2017). Recent recognitions include Regeneration 4, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (2020); the Light Work Artist-In-Residency program (2019); the Carol Crow Fellowship (2019); and the Kris Graves Project, Lost II Book Prize (2019). Cristina's work has been shown widely including exhibitions at Musée de l’Elysée, ICP Museum, ArtBo, MoMA PS1, International Center of Photography, Houston Center for Photography, and Society for Photographic Education, in addition to being held in private and public collections. Her monographs Viterbo (Kris Graves Projects, 2019), and Montañera (self published, 2017) have been collected by Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Getty Institute, Whitney Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the International Center of Photography, Syracuse University, ArtCenter College of Art and Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Arcadia University, Texas State University, University of Iowa, Ryerson University and George Washington University; amongst others. Cristina lives and works between Bogotá and New York. She is currently a curator for New Poetics of Labor, and a mentor at University of Houston.
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Sangre de mi Sangre by Martha Naranjo SandovalLimited Print Edition
Edition of 5 copies
Signed and numbered
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$250
Martha, Brooklyn, October 2019.
Archival pigment print
Baryta paper
310 gsm
5” ✕ 7”
Book
Saddle stitch, self-cover
With limited edition obi band
32 pages
28 plates
5.5” ✕ 8”
Signed
Designed by Aline Enríquez
Martha has been photographing her quotidian life since she moved to the States from México in 2014. The pictures in Sangre de mi Sangre (Blood of my Blood) were selected for this collection of over 300 35mm rolls and edited by artist Justine Kurland.
My love for Dylan is certain and undeniable but suddenly I was being asked to demonstrate it in a tangible way for the scrutiny of an anonymous immigration officer. Bureaucrats boil relationships down to leases, bank statements, and anodyne group pictures. Sangre de mi Sangre is my response to that reductive requirement imposed on love. The pictures within tell the story of intimacy, affection, and trust in a world turned upside down.”—MNS
Her work focuses on the materiality of image; in the difference between how time is portrayed in moving and still image; and in how images gain significance culturally.
She holds a degree in Film a Television from Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión (Mexico City) and an MFA from the International Center of Photography and Bard College. She was part of the .357 Estudio y Espacio Creativo photography project residency in 2012; in 2014 she won the Conacyt-FONCA scholarship for studies abroad, awarded by the Mexican Government; and in 2017 she was part of the Flux Factory Artist-in-residence, for which she organized the community project Día de Muertos. She is the co-founder of the editorial project Matarile Ediciones, which publishes work by artists who are immigrants or part of a recent diaspora. In 2016 she edited the book After the Fact, which included pieces by Martha Wilson, Katherine Hubbard, Nona Faustine, among others. Along with artist-curator Groana Melendez, she organizes platforms to showcase artists and promote critical conversations, including a series of interviews for the Camera Club of New York and the event Mexican Tertulia in conjunction with the festival Celebrate Mexico Now.
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West 176 Street by groana melendezLimited Print Edition
Edition of 5 copies
Signed and numbered
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$250
Untitled (Makeup), 2006.
Archival pigment print
Baryta paper
310 gsm
5” ✕ 7”
Book
Saddle stitch, self-cover
With limited edition obi band
32 pages
24 plates
5.5” ✕ 8”
Signed
Designed by Aline Enríquez
West 176 Street is a selection of images taken at groana’s home on the street by the same name. This apartment is where she grew up and where her parents still live. The publication includes both images from her family album and pictures she has been taking of the place and its inhabitants since 2005.
Her work explores hybrid identities through self-representation.
She holds an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies from the International Center of Photography-Bard Program and has been part of residencies at Proyecto ‘Ace, Diaspora Vibe Arts Incubator, and ARC Athens. She is included in the collections of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Library, the Library of Congress, and En Foco Inc. groana has had solo shows at the New York Public Library, CUNY, and ICP-Bard’s studio in Queens. She has been included in group shows at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, the Latinx Project at NYU, BRIC Arts, and El Museo del Barrio’s La Trienal 20/21, the museum’s first national large-scale survey of Latinx contemporary art. She works and lives in the Bronx in New York City.