Tatiana Macedo: Foreign Grey
© Tatiana Macedo
About Tatiana Macedo
The programme of online photography and/or video exhibitions (led by Rui Goncalves Cepeda since 2013) 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 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 has started in October 2013 and has engaged since then with visual narratives and stories brought by photographers and artists from different cultural sides of the world, while engaging with a dialogue that can be contextualised and that speaks to a global audience.
In a first moment, Rui Cepeda 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?, through the works of photographers such as Delio Jasse, Carlos Palma, Jane and Louise Wilson, and Adam Chodzko. On the following moment he has focused his attention on the bodily and mental states springing from the ideas of convergences, anxiety, destruction, deceleration, deficit and chance, while looking into the works of Larson & Shindelman, Cristina Lucas, Marisa J. Futernick, and Rosangela Rennó. Whereas, on a third moment, has VASA's Head Curator he has engaged with ideas surrounding the body, like freedom, choice, repetition, disappearance though the works of Nadine Fraczkowski, Kimiko Yoshida and presently Tatiana Macedo. Artist who deals with issues surrounding determination and choice of historical and cultural points of reference and view, and enunciations that are clearly proposed upon contrary by the established creation of meaning.
On VASA Exhibitions:
VASA Exhibitions over the years have provided a platform for individual and group exhibitions, collaborative exhibitions with various organizations and galleries and exhibitions that follow a particular theme or inquiry such as “Where Do We Go Now” curated by Rui Cepeda and the “Kharkiv School of Photography: Soviet Censorship to New Aesthetics” curated by Igor Manko.
VASA Exhibitions are international and multicultural. The curatorial team has strived to present work that not only represents the photographers but also the social, historical and cultural. As an online international project, VASA works to engage various digital tools. Video, as an example, not only offers the potential for the presentation of works, it provides the opportunity and framework for the voice of the author to be seen and heard. Through image, text, sound and animation, VASA works to expand the exhibition paradigm and provide a rich experience for the viewer (as well as the author).
VASA Exhibitions provides a viewing and research environment by archiving all of the exhibitions in their entirety. For example, the viewer may view a 2009 exhibition as it was presented and not just traces of its existence.
VASA Exhibitions includes video and video series, and sound works.