Martina Bacigalupo “Gulu Real Art Studio”
The Walther Collection Project Space
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The Walther Collection presents Gulu Real Art Studio, an installation of 90 studio portraits collected by the photographer Martina Bacigalupo from the Gulu Real Art Studio in Gulu, Uganda. Edited from hundreds of discarded, faceless images — the faces were originally cut out for standardized ID photos — the exhibition represents a typological cross-section of Gulu’s society today, a city subjected to violent conflicts over several decades. Vivid and diverse, the distinctions of clothing and pose in each image reveal markers of self-definition, illustrating the compelling story of one East African community and the significance of studio portraiture in the twenty-first century.
Martina Bacigalupo was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1978. Currently based in Burundi, East Africa, her work has been published in the The New York Times Magazine, London Sunday Times Magazine, Le Monde Magazine, Internazionale, Elle, Esquire, and Jeune Afrique. Bacigalupo is a member of Agence Vu in Paris.
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Schedule
from September 20, 2013 to February 08, 2014
Opening Reception on 2013-09-19 from 18:00 to 20:00