Where Do We Go Now! Carlos Palma
© Carlos Palma 2012
About This Exhibition:
Where Do We Go Now! is a series of online exhibitions that runs from October 2013 until July 2014 at VASA curated by Rui Goncalves Cepeda. It is built around the subject of geography as a battleground between distinctive contemporary ideologies and contested territories.
The body of work that will be presented throughout this period engages in narratives and stories that explore the authority of ‘geography’, as a body of knowledge with political implications in the age of global communication, to unravel the disruption of the social order in the public and private space.
It evolves around two key conditions: on the one hand, borrowing from Prof. Irit Rogoff thoughts, expressed in the essay What is a Theorist? (2006), it addresses the dynamics of loss, of giving up, of moving away, and of being without as “a journey of phases in which the thought we are immersed in is invalidate”; whereas, on the other, this series inquires in to the contested territories of contemporary photography in a digital-democratising age, from being a visual medium for collective memory to issues about copyright and authorship, and on the limitations of photography in terms of narrative capacity.
For Where Do We Go Now! Part II: Carlos Palma (b. 1971), the selection of images was taken from 'A Million Children Refugees' and 'Reflections of Displaced Syrians' series, while a small sample of images came from the 'Aleppo at War' series. This selection reflects on children from Aleppo who have escaped fighting happening in that city, and who have arrived safely at the border post with Turkey, at Bab Al Salameb. However, at the time of the photo-shooting, Turkey border authorities were no longer allowing these newly displaced Syrians into their country. Scared to return to their homes due to fears of aerial bombardments this displaced people have no other option then to face another war, but this one due to natural causes, the winter cold and the rain.
Rui G. Cepeda
Curator
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All images in this exhibition: © Carlo Palma 2012. Work represented and distributed by ReduxPictures