Giacobetti Paul Gallery
111 Front St. Suite 220
Brooklyn, New York 11201

917.548.8107
info@giacobettipaulgallery.com

SHOT
A group exhibition with Jimmy Fountain, Mylène Giacobetti, Simon Kahn, JiYe Kim, Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, Christy Powers
November 5 – November 29, 2009

Artists’ Reception
Thursday, November 5, 5:30 – 8:30pm

Gallery Hours
Wednesday – Sunday, 12 – 6pm
Closed Thanksgiving Day

I will be showing all new work (prints, lightboxes and video) shot in Brazil and which builds on my ongoing project on commuters.  In the show are works with images taken in the Sao Paulo airport, the small ferry station in Bom Despacho, the historical Estação Da Luz train station, and other public spaces with commuters. I am interested in these spaces for their strong relationship to time, and have used my own commutes and global travels as brief, often rushed, artist “residencies” in which I capture anxiety, rush, linger, movement and most importantly, time.

In my light boxes, sequences of images that could be collaged digitally to create one print are instead presented as physically collaged, almost sculptural, backlit objects. They are thick photographs that require time to view, appreciate, and understand.  They encourage the art viewer to slow down and take as much time as is encapsulated in the artifact, to view it.  In this show I will also have a pair of slow videos which challenge the rapidly moving images that constantly surround us and again are an invitation to experience my time behind the camera and in that particular space, in the viewing of slowly moving loops which don’t seem to have a beginning nor an end.

I am one in a team of faculty and students from Parsons, Milano, and the graduate program in International Affairs from The New School to return to Guatemala to continue the work started last year, with the goal of promoting social and economic development through design.

We are collaborating with an association of Mayan weavers in the town of San Lucas Toliman and with a group that is just now working together, in Santiago Zamora.

For more details, and photos and video of our work, please see the blog we update almost daily.

Por favor llene esta encuesta si quisiera estar al tanto de esta iniciativa // Please fill out this short survey if you would like to be kept posted on this initiative.

I started when it was in beta phase, and continue now that it has officially launched.  I find the charts and interface beautiful, and have been experimenting with everyday information, which may become meaningful after a certain accumulation.  Let me know what you think!

I have known Tokyo-based Colombian artist Klaus Fruchtnis for many years, but it is just recently that we discovered our similar interests in using photography as a way to capture urban spaces, in particular public ones. We also seem to always end up in language-based exercises.

We first collaborated on the Thing-a-Day blog run by some great people over at Eyebeam, and most recently decided to continue these ideas in a project we are calling Cross Urban.

I also recently met Brooklyn-based artist Annie Leist, (we were in a group show together at Broadway Gallery) and when I read her artist statement, I had to make sure I was not reading my own.  I’m sure we’ll find a way to work together as well – something I look forward to!

The Patterning [untitled image 9426]
[by S. David] [art by Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo]

Math
Art
Geometric
Patterning
Whatever
It’s creative
Planning
Plotting
Is it
Homework
Or work
Sometimes
A picture
Tells a story
Sometimes
Only part
Of the story
And which
Is this

19§ [Orig 7/02/08]

While there, we created this blog that we updated almost daily, and of course, I also took many, many photographs of which the best are on my Flickr account.