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Dossier Artistique Debi Cornwall 3 nov 2019 Éxpositions Récents 2016-2018 Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay Les Rencontres de la Photographie en Gaspésie Percé, Canada 2018 Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay Cortona on the Move Festival Head On Photo Festival Italy Sydney, Australia 2018 2018 Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay Philadelphia Photographic Arts Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2018 Discoveries of the Meeting Place Fotofest Biennial Houston, Texas 2018 * Nominated by Lianzhou Museum of Photography Director Duan Yuting * Inaugural Fotofest Charles Jing Fellowship (juried exhibition prize) En Suspens Le BAL Paris, France 2018 Avec Bas Jan Ader, Luc Delahaye, Darek Fortas, Hiwa K, Aglaia Konrad, Jacques-Henri Michot, Rabih Mroué, Mélanie Pavy, Sebastian Stumpf, Paola Yacoub, & Henk Wildschut. Diane Dufour, commissaire. Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay Steven Kasher Gallery, NYC 2017 * Audio installation in collaboration with poet Frank Smith Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay (Radius Books, 2017) Kraszna-Krausz Book Award Exhibition Longlist Photo London, England 2018 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Exhibition Shortlist Paris Photo Fair, France 2017 * Toured in 2017-2018 to Aperture Gallery (NY, NY), Düsseldorf Photo Weekend; Month of Photography Los Angeles; Photo Basel (Switzerland); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg Triennial of Photography (Germany); Cortona on the Move (Italy); and Medium Festival (San Diego, California). Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles Photo-Text Book Award Exhibition Shortlist Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, France 2017 * Also awarded PDN Publisher’s Choice Award, Shortlisted for the Alice Award (US). Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay BMW Photo Space of the GoEun Museum of Photography Busan, South Korea 2017 Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay Centre de la Photographie Genève Geneva, Switzerland 2017 Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay Lianzhou International Foto Festival (China) 19 November to 9 December, 2016 * Punctum Award, Juried Exhibition Prize * Punctum Award Special Exhibition, Chongqing, China, 2017 Something Fierce Aperture Summer Open: On Freedom Lannan Foundation Aperture Foundation Gallery, NYC Santa Fe, NM 2017 2017 Curated by For Freedoms Featuring eight women artists in the Lannan Foundation's STUMP collection whose work exemplifies an element of ferocity, Candela Books + Gallery whether it be expressed in the subject, process or intent. Richmond, VA With Christine Corday, Sharon Core, Roni Horn, Munson 2016 Hunt, An-My Lê, Sarah Pickering, and Victoria Sambunaris. With Lindsey Beal, Sheila Pee Bright, Tom Kiefer, Mark Curated by Christie Davis. Peterson, Brian Ulrich, and D.M. Whitman * With “Gitmo on Sale” objects, souvenirs from the gift shops at the U.S. Naval Station, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba Selected Recent Publications 2016-2018 Michael McCanne, “Black Sights” Book review Art in America Magazine (June/July 2018) Moritz Neumüller, "Extreme Exposures" Book review European Photography Magazine No. 102 (2018). VOL. 340 • August • The Monthly Photo Art Magazine The Monthly Photo Art Magazine The Monthly Photo VOL. 340 2017.08 스페셜 이슈 - 공동체란 무엇인가? 동강사진상 수상자 정동석 www.photoart.co.kr 조던 매터, 한 여름 밤의 춤 Siddhartha Mitter Seock Hyunhye "Outside the Wire: Camp America Comes Home" “Debi Cornwall, Welcome to Camp America” Exhibition review Interview & Exhibition Review The Intercept Sajinyesul Photographic Art Magazine (Korea) (10 June 2018) (August 2017) Izabela Radwanska Zhang, "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" David O'Neill, "Artful Volumes: Season's Outstanding Art Books," Book review Book review British Journal of Photography Bookforum (November 2017) Vol. 4, Issue 3 (Fall 2017). (October 2015) “Aux Portes du Penitencier,” Photo essay Elodie Cabrera, “Hors la Loi Américaine,” Interview Polka Magazine (France) Projet Nouveau Necessary Fictions (2016-19) Necessary Fictions is a forthcoming book and multimedia installation exploring the performance of American power and identity in the post-September-11 era. In this time of perpetual war, constant vigilance, and political division, what are the games we play, the stories we tell, to prepare for—or distract from—unsettling realities? How are fictions deployed or embraced, and to what end? Chapter 1: Atropia, documents mock-village landscapes in the fictional country of “Atropia” and its inhabitants through photographs and sound. Costumed Afghan and Iraqi civilians, many who have fled war, recreate it in the service of the U.S. military. Real soldiers are dressed by Hollywood makeup artists in “moulage”—fake wounds—for immersive realistic pre-deployment training scenarios as they prepare to deploy abroad. A selection of photographs follows. Chapter 2, Jade Helm, is a 20-minute experimental found-footage film about what happened when entire communities mistook wargames for the real thing. Watch the current edit on Vimeo here. Chapter 3, Pineland, if funded, will be a pair of short films in two genres simultaneously reenacting a real-world incident in which distinguishing reality from fantasy became the difference between life and death. A single soundtrack plays for both screens: sworn testimony from two survivors – the police officer and a soldier –narrated in voiceovers, with a dramatic original “war film” score. The testimony sounds familiar. It might as well have been scripted in Hollywood. But the two survivors’ wildly different perceptions of reality make it sound like they are in different films, different genres even. We know that Hollywood mines trauma for entertainment. But is testimony, too, a performance influenced by fictional tropes? The story: A police officer pulls over a suspicious vehicle and inquires of its occupants. Their answers don’t add up. Things escalate. There is a struggle, and he shoots two men. One dies. The officer learns too late that the suspects were undercover soldiers doing an immersive real- world exercise to infiltrate the fictional country of “Pineland” as their final exam to become special forces operatives (“green berets”). They thought he was part of their game. Screen 1: The incident shown through Hollywood film clips. Rough cut (10:50) here. Screen 2: A staged reenactment of the incident. Pineland is intended to be shown at installation as a standalone piece, or within one room of the larger multimedia Necessary Fictions installation. It could also be recut sequentially for festival or web viewing. Storyboard in progress. *Concept shortlisted for the 2019 Tim Hetherington Trust Visionary Award and finalist for the 2019 W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Grant. Production has been supported in part by a Leica Women Foto Project award, the Harpo Foundation, a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in photography, a Center for Emerging Visual Artists fellowship, an Outpost Artist Resources Cuts & Burns residency, and the Puffin Foundation. Fiscally sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). Production is ongoing. Debi Cornwall CV Brooklyn, NY, US I am a conceptual documentary artist who returned to visual expression in 2014 after a 12-year career as a civil rights lawyer. My work examines American power and identity in the post-September-11 era through photographs, archival material, testimony, and other media. Education 2000 Harvard Law School, J.D. 1995 Brown University, B.A., magna cum laude, Honors in Modern Culture & Media (photography) 1992-95 Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), photography classes Monographs Necessary Fictions (Radius Books, forthcoming 2020) Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantánamo Bay (Radius Books, 2017) * Named among 2017’s top-10 photo books: N.Y. Times Magazine, 1000 Words, Mother Jones, Smithsonian Magazine Solo Exhibitions (Welcome to Camp America) 2020-21 Musée de la Photographie Charleroi (Belgium) (forthcoming January 23 to May 18, 2021) Stadthaus Ulm (Germany) (forthcoming October 9, 2020 to January 17, 2021), curated by Daniela Baumann 2018 les Rencontres de la Photographie en Gaspésie (Canada) Cortona on the Move Festival (Italy) 2018 les Rencontres de la Photographie en Gaspésie (Canada) Cortona on the Move Festival (Italy) Philadelphia Photographic Arts Center (PA) Head On Photo Festival (Sydney, Australia) 2017 Steven Kasher Gallery (New York, NY) Carriage House Gallery, Brown University (Providence, RI) BMW Photo Space of GoEun Museum of Photography (Busan, S. Korea) Centre de la Photographie Genève (Switzerland) Punctum Award Special Exhibition, Lianzhou Foto Touring Exhibition, Chongqing (China) 2016 Lianzhou International Foto Festival (China) (catalogue) Gallery 1401, University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA) 2015 Photoville (Brooklyn, NY) 2015 Fovea Exhibitions (Beacon, NY) Selected Group Exhibitions 2020 Leica Women Foto Project Award Exhibition, Leica Gallery Boston (forthcoming 5 March to 26 April 2020) 2018 Kraszna-Krausz Book Award Exhibition, Photo London (U.K.) Discoveries of the Meeting Place, Fotofest Biennial (Houston, TX) (catalogue) En Suspens (In Between), Le BAL (Paris, France) (9 February to 13 May) (catalogue) 2017 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards Exhibition, Grand Palais (France); ); touring through 2018 Hope, Beirut Art Fair (Lebanon), Annalix Forever Genève Contemporary Art Gallery Bending the Frame, Gulf + Western Gallery, NYU Tisch School of the Arts (NY, NY) Something Fierce, Lannan Foundation Gallery (Santa Fe, NM) Aperture Summer Open: On Freedom,