"States of Flux" Exhibition
Aperture Gallery
This event has ended.
Photographic images are more cheaply and easily produced now more than ever, with newfound potential for immediate mass distribution and consumption, as well as the burden of almost-immediate, unplanned (or planned) obsolescence. How does the contemporary photographer contend with the forces of rapid technological change? How do these forces affect the ways in which photographers picture the globalized world? In this exhibition, emerging photographers from the BFA and MFA photography programs at Parsons The New School for Design, an institution which aims to maintain a focus on globalization and sustainability, respond to the need to produce and consume images while simultaneously addressing the changing nature of the medium itself—they are working within states of constant flux. In various ways, the show's twelve artists are all seeking to counter the increasing obsolescence of images; they are engaged in a discourse about post-photographic realism and picturing the complexity of contemporary reality. This exhibition is organized into four thematic groupings: Enviro-mental, The Ontology of the Digital Self, Object of Desire, Politics of Economies.
[Image by Rachel Porter]
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Schedule
from June 24, 2010 to August 12, 2010