Voyage
Shine Huang and Miguel Winograd
Photographs
The art design project gallery is pleased to announce our new virtual exhibition VOYAGE.
A curated selection of limited edition photographs by the exceptional artists Shine Huang and Miguel Winograd represented by our gallery.
-Shine Huang uses everyday objects to create mysterious and impressive images. Huang focuses on adapting historical photographic processes into contemporary art. Many of his images are also a mirror that reflects the photographer's understanding of being an immigrant living in the United States.
Egg Study Series: Egg Study 1 Egg Study 2 Egg Study 3
Interstellar Series: Interstellar II Interstellar III Interstellar
The galaxy-like silver particles scattered on the giant black circle floating in the square frame. That is a complexity of artist’s concept formation and culture practicing. In Chinese folklore, people believe the universe is a circle and the ground is a square (flat). The “galaxy” is the result of the rice being manually grind in the mortar and pestle. With the passage of time, the form of the rice changed from grain to refined powder. The powder and grain are carefully placed on the photographic paper in the darkroom then exposed to the light to make an image. In this process of image making, time is highly involved, physically and conceptually. Time can change lots of things: the shape of the things, the form of the things, but the essence of the things will still remain.
-What began as a pretext to exercise MIguel Winograd's gaze, little by little became a meditation on different intertwined temporalities. The superposition of very ancient times with dynamic and fleeting cycles: from the geological time of formation of those mountains, through the recurring periods of flowering and decay of plant life, to the immediate oscillation of a climate that oscillates between extremes: all stations in a day, sometimes in an hour or less. And at the same time, traces of many pasts persist in a spectral present. Ghosts. Melancholic friars wandering in the fog. Land of deities and demons.
Mares Series: Moonrise III Moonrise II Moonrise I
Bruma, Enjambres, and Matas series: Pared el Palmar Eclipse Ituango
The artist looks for a path between tangled branches. Reconfiguring a personal archive of diverse Colombian landscapes, experimenting with a variety of printing materials to reconstruct a whole from these fragments, recreating a forest in the center of Bogotá. Winograd also examines a historical archive of landscapes, the roots of his own vision. He believes that the old mimetic dream of photography is still alive. These exercises aim to weave a series of visual connections and reflect on the complex web of interdependencies between humans and nature. If there is a light of hope in the midst of overlapping crises, it is the awareness that we all belong to a whole. Perhaps these images can help in that reflection.
These photographs in the MATAS series may bring a Dionysian understanding of nature's complexity that surpasses the scientific, distant, and the binary way of approaching meaning. Representing the organic using the chemistry of light in an organic way is more reminiscent of the myth.
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