Where Do We Go Now! Marisa J. Futernick
© Marisa J. Futernick
About
WDWGN! is a programme of online exhibitions at VASA Project that has been led by Rui Goncalves Cepeda since 2013. This programme of exhibitions is build around the subject and authority of ‘geography’ as a battleground between distinctive contemporary ideologies and contested conceptual territories.
Evolving around those two key conditions the series of online photography exhibitions associate the physical and mental states of the body and of the being: it addresses the contested territories of contemporary photography in a digital-democratising age and its limitations in terms of narrative capacity; as well as the energy essential for the long journey, as being 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?, from 2006).
The programme running from October 2013 to September 2015 has engaged with visual narratives and stories brought by photographers and artists from different cultural backgrounds, while interacting in a dialogue that can be contextualised and speaks to a global audience. If with photographers, such as Délio Jasse, Carlos Palma, Jane and Louise Wilson, and Adam Chodzko, Rui has explored and inquired into the dynamics of loss, of giving up, of moving away, and of being without, as was expressed in the essay ‘What is a Theorist?’ in through the works of Nadine Fraczkowski, Cristina Lucas, Rosangela Rennó, Marisa J. Futernick, he has focused his attention on the bodily and mental states springing from the ideas of deliverance, convergences, anxiety, destruction, deceleration, deficit and chance. Whereas, with the work of Larson & Shindelman he inquired into the disruption caused by technical and visual approaches invalidate a series of geographical conditions affecting human activity.
Rui G. Cepeda
Curator
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