swiss colours, fields
a long term photographic project based around the region of the lac léman. focusing on the colours and light of the ordinary and the everyday, offering a tender look towards the things and gestures and places we often take for granted. it is attempt to understand the character of the region: that certain poetic nothingness that permeates it all.
this project is an ongoing and sprawling endeavour that to this day forms an archive of over 3000 negatives. this is a project about a place, my ever-changing relationship with it, the redefinition of its portrait throughout time, and of my life within it. It is as much about the perception of a place, about learning to see it in its own terms, as it is about the place itself.
a handful of gold (memorias de un modernismo)
a fragmentary poem with words, notations, photographs, postcards, photocopies and cheap reproductions of modernist venezuelan artworks by jesus soto, carlos cruz diez alejandro otero and gertrude goldstein, amongst other printed matter around the role of images
as objects in a personal narrative of exile and how it relates to the shaping of a national imaginary and physical landscape and body by the ideals of modernism, sparked by my mother handing me a plastic bag full of old negatives during their visit to switzerland, most of them kodak gold.
frank
subtitled “27 colour photographs by different manners of technique taken between the 20th and the 26th of november, 2022 around one frank bradish, gulf war purple heart, and the family house near pocatello, idaho.”
a pseudo-documentary portrait of north-western american banality made during a family visit to pocatello, idaho. the photographs play with the flawed dynamic of the photoreportueur and its subject, not attempting to reveal a hidden truth in an unbalanced power dynamic, instead embracing the opacity of the photographic image to self-reflectively explore themes of masculinity and the opaque shell of concealment, suppression and violence that results from it. this project attempts to form a portrait of who frank is, in addition to form a self-portrait exploration on the nature of the photographic image and the dynamics it imposes on its subject, purposefully subverting them.
of the printed object
of a notion of place
of migration and locality
of banality
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Exhibitions
- 2024a handful of gold (memorias de un modernismo) - solo exhibit at Galerie Strates, Lausanne
- Beyond the Grain - collective exhibit at LiveInYourHead, HEAD–Genève
- Miradas Dislocadas - collective exhibit at the Sala Mendoza, Caracas
- 2023Plat(t)form 2023 - collective exchange at Fotomuseum Winterthur
- 2022HEAD Grand Tour - exhibit featuring diploma works
- 2021Muséum - collective projection at No'Photo Biennale, Geneva
Exhibitions
- 2024a handful of gold (memorias de un modernismo) - solo exhibit at Galerie Strates, Lausanne
- Beyond the Grain - collective exhibit at LiveInYourHead, HEAD–Genève
- Miradas Dislocadas - collective exhibit at the Sala Mendoza, Caracas
- 2023Plat(t)form 2023 - collective exchange at Fotomuseum Winterthur
- 2022HEAD Grand Tour - exhibit featuring diploma works
- 2021Muséum - collective projection at No'Photo Biennale, Geneva