Date & time
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
5 p.m. – 6 p.m.
5 p.m. – 6 p.m.
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The purge of the images
The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery presents a talk by guest curator Joan Fontcuberta, in conjunction with the exhibition Sean Snyder
Speaker(s)
Joan Fontcuberta
Cost
This event is free
Organization
Where
J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve W.
Room LB-165
Accessible location
Yes
SEAN SNYDER, Installation View, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University. Left to right: Aleatoric Collision (Sony Hacking Scandal), 2015; Index (Storage Media), 2009; Index (Synopsis), 2009; Untitled (Novosti Press Agency), 2007. Photo: Paul Litherland
At a time when so many images circulate and fascinate, precisely because they are so toxic and nasty, Sean Snyder carries out what could be thought of, in the clinical sense, as a purge. In the exhibition, he demonstrates this through the fundamental recognition of the raw materials of visual information (ink on paper, celluloid, magnetic tape, algorithms and pixels) and his handling of the rhetorics of persuasion.
Curator Joan Fontcuberta will discuss his interpretation of the works in the exhibition.
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About the speaker
Joan Fontcuberta (Barcelona, 1955) has developed an artistic and theoretical practice, which focuses on the conflicts between nature, technology and truth. He has had solo shows at MoMA and the Art Institute of Chicago among others, and his work has been collected by institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Centre Georges Pompidou. Fontcuberta was the 2013 recipient of Hasselblad Foundation Award and has published a dozen of books about aspects of history, aesthetics and epistemology of photography.