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Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins
Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, UK 28 February – 27 May 2018 Media View, Tuesday 27 February, 10am – 1pm The exhibition is supported by The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. Media Partner: AnOther Magazine #AnotherKindofLife Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins looks at the continuing fascination of artists with those on the margins of society through the photographic medium. Some of the most powerful images of the 20th and 21st century are the result of a determined and often prolonged engagement with communities seemingly at odds with, or on the fringes of, the mainstream. Another Kind of Life explores photography’s relationship with this compelling subject through the work of 20 exceptional image-makers, including Bruce Davidson, Paz Errázuriz, Casa Susanna, Larry Clark, Mary Ellen Mark, Boris Mikhailov, Daido Moriyama and Dayanita Singh. Part of the Barbican’s 2018 season The Art of Change, which reflects on the dialogue between art, society and politics, the exhibition directly – and at times poetically – addresses difficult questions about what it means to exist in the margins, the role artists have played in portraying subcultures and the complex intermingling between artistic and mainstream depictions of the outsider. Another Kind of Life opens at Barbican Art Gallery on 28 February 2018. Jane Alison, Head of Visual Arts, Barbican, said: ‘Barbican Art Gallery has always championed groundbreaking photography, placing it at the heart of our programme with recent highlights including Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age (2014) and Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers(2016). -
Vik Muniz N./B. 1961, São Paulo, Brazil Vive E Trabalha/Lives and Works in Rio De Janeiro and New York
vik muniz n./b. 1961, são paulo, brazil vive e trabalha/lives and works in rio de janeiro and new york formação / education B.A. in Advertising from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP), São Paulo, Brazil exposições (seleção) / exhibitions (selection) individuais em negrito / solo exhibitions in bold 2018 Vik Muniz, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, USA Vik Muniz: Verso, Belvedere Museum Vienna, Vienna, Austria Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials, Palmer Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA 2017 Vik Muniz: Handmade, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA Afterglow (Pictures of Ruin), Palazzo Cini, Venice, Italy Vik Muniz, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico Vik Muniz: a Retrospective, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington, USA Troposphere – Chinese and Brazilian Contemporary Art, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China Look at Me!: Portraits and Other Fictions from the ”la Caixa” Contemporary Art Collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey Pledges of Allegiance, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA Ways of Seeing, Fondation Boghossian - Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium This Is Not a Selfie – Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA Glassstrass, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy A Vastidão dos Mapas, Museu Oscar Niemeyer (MON), Curitiba, Brazil Trazas simultáneas, Embaixada do BrasilArgentina, Espacio Cultural, Argentin 2016 Handmade, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil Vik Muniz, High Museum of Art, -
Expanding the Cultural Imagination Through Photography ICS [3] 1
Impact case study (REF3b) Institution: University of Brighton Unit of Assessment: D34 Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory Title of case study: Expanding the Cultural Imagination through Photography ICS [3] 1. Summary of the impact Our research has harnessed the power of photography to expand the cultural imagination, creating new works and interpretive practices that enrich, illuminate and challenge perceptions of society and the world in which we live. Through exhibition, publication, and public and community engagement, our research has: 1) created cultural legacies for major public (Millennium Dome, Treasury) and commercial (Airbus) projects; 2) provided enhanced cultural experiences to multiple audiences and specific communities in the UK and Europe, provoking reflection on ideas of place and identity, and contributing to processes of cultural memory and reconciliation (Association of Jewish Refugees, Healing Through Remembering) and; 3) expanded photography within the cultural economy, working in partnership (Photoworks, Multistory) to build and sustain audiences for photography within and beyond the region. 2. Underpinning research University of Brighton (UoB) research in photography comprises three interlocking strands: the positioning of photography as a medium of critical artistic significance within the wider cultural economy and public sphere; the development of forms of visual storytelling that shape contemporary narratives of place, and; photography as a mode of enquiry into cultural history and memory. In 2003, in partnership with Photoworks and the University of Sussex, UoB was instrumental in founding the Brighton Photo Biennial to raise the public and professional profile of photography. In parallel, Photoforum (2003), launched by GREEN and LOWRY, provided the intellectual underpinning for developments in practice that fostered a critical debate around the medium’s changing uses and increasing cultural prominence. -