Where Do We Go Now! Nadine Fraczkowski
© Nadine Fraczkowski 2014
About This Exhibition:
Where Do We Go Now! (WDWGN!) is a series of six online photography exhibitions held at VASA Project. Curated by Rui Goncalves Cepeda, this programme of exhibitions is built around the subject of geography as a battleground between distinctive contemporary ideologies and contested territories.
The programme 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, as expressed in her essay What is a Theorist? (2006); whereas, on the other, the selected works inquire 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 programme has started in October 2013 and has been engaging with narratives and stories that explore the authority of “geography”, as a body of knowledge with political implications in the age of global communication, to creative zones unravelling the disruption of the social order in the public and private space.
The work of Delio Jasse and the appropriation of found images in flea markets, going through reflections of dislocated people from war zones by Carlos Palma, followed by spaces of transition, death, and sacrifice as those that were captured by Jane and Louise Wilson, and images of destruction, memory, and living matter by Adam Chodzko, or Larson & Shindelman’s examination and exploration of notions related with memory and witnessing through digital generated images.
This last exhibition, by Nadine Fraczkowski, of portraits, brings a closure to the series and makes a relational bridge to the second series. Fraczkowski’s photographic work approaches different systems of reality, verities, and orders. She asks questions about language and discourses, about context and environment. Most importantly, her work is focused on the encoding-decoding-recoding communication process or, in a different categorisation scheme, on the destructive conflictual forces existing in the author-object-audience socio-cultural environment.
Rui G. Cepeda
Curator
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