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Exhibitions
Unsuspected
Oct 17 to Nov 8 | Northlight Gallery, 605 E Grant Street Phoenix 85004
Opening reception | Oct 17 | 6 p.m.
Unsuspected proposes to focus on the overlooked, the insignificant, and the forgotten. Photography has a unique capacity to capture something unseen, through either a long or premeditated creative process, experimentation, chance occurrences, as documentation of performative acts, as a transdisciplinary form, a screen shot, etc. It may be raw, traditional, constructed, edited by AI, estranged, diluted, recognizable or not as belonging to the photographic realm.
This exhibition is inspired by the artist Sybil Brintrup (Chile, 1954-2020), a Chilean conceptual artist who worked in diverse media — including video, performance, photography, poetry, objects and games — and was often overlooked. Brintrup found intricate ways to celebrate “little” things, such as her love for lettuce from her series Romances or the act of ironing as a collective form of care. Her extraordinary gestures, intimate, performative, humble, unassuming, celebrated with “Zen humor” some of the most common aspects of our domestic existence, highlighting and elevating the daily in our human condition. Her photographs were often taken from stills of homemade videos and turned into games with instructions that were both humorous and philosophical. Her work was political in the most unexpected ways, due to the intimate and vulnerable nature of her gestures, which could expose her to ridicule or rejection, such as offering to iron the public’s clothing in the museum or ironing while singing at the edge of Laguna del Inca in Valparaíso, Chile. Overlooking Brintrup reflects our collective personal unnoticing, also in the art world.
Curated by: Cecilia Fajardo-Hill
Participating artists: Julie Anand, Sybil Brintrup, Stan Buglass, Amalia Caputo, Liz Cohen, Lenora de Barros, Cameron Gainer, Mehrdad Mirzaie, Elizabeth Pineda, Patricia Sannit and Liza Stout
Gallery Hours
Thursday – Saturday | 12 to 5 p.m.
First and third Fridays of the month | 6 to 9 p.m.
Closed Sunday – Wednesday and university holidays
