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This will be Victor Sira's second solo exhibition at IG Photo Gallery, following "Pictures of Nothing: Bookworks and Photographs" last July.
The previous exhibition featured photographic prints, print-on-demand and lithograph books, and artist books. The exhibition showed the editability of photography and the power of the book as a form of expression.
After receiving a photography fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2006, Sira was inspired to make a moving image work about immigration. Sira is an immigrant who came to the United States from Venezuela as a young boy and has been working on immigrant-themed work for many years.
Sira traveled south on Route 286 in southern Arizona, on the Sasabe road between Tucson and Arivaca, near the U.S.-Mexico border, to capture the migrants as they moved through the treacherous wilderness from Mexico to the United States.
However, the migrants were nowhere to be seen. All Sira's camera captured was dry land and traces of the migrants' presence in the area--lost items, trash, and the like. Other coverage of the migrant camps was not as successful as originally intended.
Sira felt that he had reached a dead end in his coverage and decided to archive the footage unedited. However, now, 17 years after the shooting, she has reviewed the videos and photos taken at that time, edited them from a new perspective, and composed them into a new work of art.
Sira describes the new concept as "a meditation on the existence of the wilderness, a self-portrait that echoes within the landscape. The wilderness is vast, timeless, and magnificent. It is dangerous, yet full of possibility."
The video work depicts this work as one photographer visits the field to photograph the migrants and drives his car with an old man who supports the migrants in the area. The photographer, the old man, and the other character each wander the dry land for different purposes. What they see is left to the audience's imagination. Victor Sira will not be visiting Japan this time but will give an online talk session.
The previous exhibition featured photographic prints, print-on-demand and lithograph books, and artist books. The exhibition showed the editability of photography and the power of the book as a form of expression.
After receiving a photography fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2006, Sira was inspired to make a moving image work about immigration. Sira is an immigrant who came to the United States from Venezuela as a young boy and has been working on immigrant-themed work for many years.
Sira traveled south on Route 286 in southern Arizona, on the Sasabe road between Tucson and Arivaca, near the U.S.-Mexico border, to capture the migrants as they moved through the treacherous wilderness from Mexico to the United States.
However, the migrants were nowhere to be seen. All Sira's camera captured was dry land and traces of the migrants' presence in the area--lost items, trash, and the like. Other coverage of the migrant camps was not as successful as originally intended.
Sira felt that he had reached a dead end in his coverage and decided to archive the footage unedited. However, now, 17 years after the shooting, she has reviewed the videos and photos taken at that time, edited them from a new perspective, and composed them into a new work of art.
Sira describes the new concept as "a meditation on the existence of the wilderness, a self-portrait that echoes within the landscape. The wilderness is vast, timeless, and magnificent. It is dangerous, yet full of possibility."
The video work depicts this work as one photographer visits the field to photograph the migrants and drives his car with an old man who supports the migrants in the area. The photographer, the old man, and the other character each wander the dry land for different purposes. What they see is left to the audience's imagination. Victor Sira will not be visiting Japan this time but will give an online talk session.
Schedule | Jul 4 (Tue) 2023-Jul 22 (Sat) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.igpg.jp/exhibition/VictorSira2023.html | ||||
| Venue | IG Photo Gallery | ||||
| Location | 302 Tatsunaka Bldg., 3-13-17 Ginza Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0036 | ||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from exit A7 at Higashi-ginza Station on the Hibiya or Toei Asakusa line. | ||||
| Related images | Click on the image to enlarge it |
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