Where Do We Go Now!
Adam Chodzko
© Adam Chodzko
About This Exhibition:
Where Do We Go Now! is a series of online exhibitions at VASA Project curated by Rui Goncalves Cepeda, which has been running from October 2013 and will end in September 2014. This programme is built around the subject of geography as a battleground between distinctive contemporary ideologies and contested territories.
The programme of exhibitions evolves around two key conditions: on the one hand, 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”, borrowing from Prof. Irit Rogoff thoughts expressed in her essay What is a Theorist? (2006); 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.
The proposed photographical works, to be shown throughout the present period (October 2013 and August 2014) engage 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.
Too is composed by a series of twenty-one images drawn from a collection Adam Chodzko has been building from amateur 35 mm slides documenting storm destruction around the world. Dating back from the 1950s to the late 1980s those images that captured flattened houses or ripped up trees are covered by accumulated dust, from Geneva Airport, on their surface. These storm images documenting a reality show us very clearly that their meaning
does not remain still; they also reveal a leak into or from other spaces.
Image Credits
© Adam Chodzko, 2013. All images: Too, 2013 (found 35mm slide, C-type Print 17.8 x 25.4 cm)
Rui G. Cepeda
Curator
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