The 2019 edition of FotoMexico responds to many of today’s global issues. The exhibition program explores the statement “the personal is political,” looking at at notions of borders and representations of the female body.
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Mafalda Rakos
photographer
Mafalda Rakoš grew up in Vienna, Austria and attended Vienna Institute of Graphic Design and Audiovisual Media, department of photography focusing on social documentary photography since a very young age.
She has realized various long-time projects in Vienna and other regions of the world such as the Middle East and West Africa. Her work has been published in various magazines and was shown in various festivals such as Encontros da Imagem Festival, Portugal, and Voies Off, Arles, as well as in Vienna.
In 2013, she was awarded the Prix Revelation SAIF during Voies Off Festival at Rencontres d’Arles for her series Il y a des Jours Sombres.
The same year she and her two colleagues were awarded the Jugendinnovativ Prize for their collective book project 3rd Generation, a collective social documentary photo book project which shows the lives, opinions, and thoughts of Israeli and Palestinian youth.
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The Space Between Us / Boris MikhailovNov 16, 2019 – Feb 9, 2020
Thirty years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden presents works by Boris Mikhailov, whose artistic stance displays a strong influence by the political and social changes of that time (more…)
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On the Peripheryby Sinziana Velicescu
Sinziana Velicescu’s work is a minimalist and abstract approach, a modern chronicling of a quiet land surveyor, completely separated of sentimentality. The publication of her series is a documentation of time, bracketed in images of framed surfaces of space.
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When Home Won’t Let You StayOct 23, 2019 – Jan 26, 2020
ICA Boston International artists respond to the migration, immigration, and displacement of peoples today, in works ranging from personal accounts to poetic meditations.
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Particle Theory / Analia SabanOct 17 – Dec 28, 2019
Arario Gallery in Seoul opens Analia Saban’s solo exhibition Particle Theory for the closing exhibition of this year. Analia Saban is an artist who has continued to expand the boundaries of traditional media interpretation (more…)
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ARTPIL / Assistant & InternPosition available
Artpil is seeking to hire a part-time, freelance assistant & intern in Lille, France. Research, create and cultivate relations with galleries and museums, general communications, social networking, general assistance.
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The American Document / Part IIFractured States / Peter van Agtmael
After returning from years of war coverage, Peter van Agtmael tries to piece together the memory, identity, race, class, and family, in a landscape which has become as surreal as the war he left behind.
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Elimination of ViolenceArt, Women & Awareness
The United Nations General Assembly has designated today International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Today we would like to once again celebrate the women who have inspired and created in the art world.
